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Epidemic focus
Epidemic focus - a place of infection and presence of people suffering from an infectious disease, or territory within which, within certain time boundaries, infection of humans and domestic animals by pathogens of infectious diseases is possible
Source: "ORGANIZATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF RESTRICTIVE MEASURES IN AREAS OF NATURAL DISASTERS AND TECHNOGENIC CATASTROPHES. METHODOLOGICAL GUIDELINES. MU 1.2.793-99"
(approved by the Ministry of Health of Russia on November 23, 1999)