Introduction to Epidemiology 6th Edition by Ray M Merrill

Exercise 8

Explain and discuss herd immunity.

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Herd immunity is a kind of concept that if a population or a herd is immunized for a particular disease then there is limited chance of any epidemic that can occur. This is also regarded as the resistance that a population will develop by the spread and invasion of an infectious pathogen or a disease.