In an outbreak, the index case, primary case, or patient zero is the initial patient in the target population for an epidemiological investigation. Should we not define number of cases per outbreak as Outbreak Index so that different diseases can be defined in better terms to explain their contagiousness in different populations and under different climatic regions.
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