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A particular instance of infectious disease mortality rate will depend on a type of infectious disease and a population. Actual measures of mortality rate are based only on reported cases and usually specify a geographic location. Other constraints may include population demographics. Mortality rate is typically expressed in units of deaths per 1000 individuals per year.
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A quality that inheres in an organism population and is the per capita number of deaths in the population resulting from an infectious disease over a specified period of time.