Peterborough County-City Health Unit                                                                                       March 2001
Outbreak Control Manual

Outbreak Definitions

Two or more linked cases with clinically compatible signs and symptoms of an infection in a given period of time in a specified location;

or

two or more laboratory confirmed cases in a specified location within a given period of time;

or

whatever is above normal in the population specified during a period of time.

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