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prevention

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prevention,
n the management of those factors that could lead to disease so as to prevent the occurrence of the disease.
prevention
in disease control terms includes measures designed to prevent the introduction of a disease into areas where it does not already exist, and improve the resistance of the population and reduce the chances of the infection spreading, when the disease already exists in the population.
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