Jane works for the public health department with the primary job of conducting outbreak investigations. There has been a recent outbreak of hepatitis A. She has collected data on the number of new cases among the contacts of initial (primary) cases, divided it by the number of people in the population at risk, and then multiplied it by a given multiplier. She is calculating the:
A)Prevalence.
B)Incidence.
C)Secondary attack rate.
D)Attack rate.

Question

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The secondary attack rate is calculated by dividing the number of new cases among contacts of primary cases by the number of people at risk and multiplying by a multiplier.

Jane Works for the Public Health Department with the Primary