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Public health A mass infection from a single contaminated source
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common source outbreak
Epidemiology An outbreak that results from a group of persons being exposed to a common pathogen or toxin Public health A mass infection from a single contaminated sourceMcGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.