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Social & Preventive Medicine Concept of Health and Disease 6d6ee4d6

Killing power of disease is

A
Secondary attack rate
B
Case fatality rate
C
IMR
D
MMR
High-Yield Explanation
Ans. b (Case fatality rate). (Ref. Park, PSM, 17th ed., 52, 88)- CFR is measurement of killing power of a disease.Secondary attack rate =Number of exposed persons developing the disease within the range of IP------------------------------------------Total number of exposed/"susceptible" contactsx 100- The primary case is excluded from both the numerator and denominator.

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