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Social & Preventive Medicine Disease Causation, Measurements, Milestones 0e21b511

If a new effective treatment is initiated for a communicable disease and all the other factors remain the same, which of the following is most likely to happen?

A
Incidence will not change
B
Prevalence will change but incidence will not change
C
Neither incidence nor prevalence will change
D
Incidence and prevalence both will change
High-Yield Explanation
In an infectious disease case, as the prevalence comes down, the number of infective people in the community also comes down and hence incidence also comes down.

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