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Social & Preventive Medicine General e5472917

All of the following about 'herd immunity' are true, except:

A
Spread of epidemic is influenced by it
B
Can be acquired by immunisation
C
It is mostly due to sub-clinical infection
D
Herd structure is constant
High-Yield Explanation
A herd structure includes the population belong to the herd species, the presence and distribution of altered animal hosts and possible insect vector as well as those environmental and social factors that our or inhibit the spread of infection from host to host. This herd structure can never be constant as it is subjected to new variations. These new variations occur due to new bihs, new deaths and population mobility. Ref: Park's Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine, 19th Edition; Pages 96 - 97

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