What Is the Morbidity Rate of a Disease

question 8

Multiple Choice

What is the morbidity rate of a disease?

• A) The number of cases of the disease within a specified number of the population.
• B) The number of deaths due to an infectious agent.
• C) The ratio of the number of deaths to the number of individuals with the disease.
• D) The total number of cases of a disease.
• E) The number of deaths within a population.

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