The community health nurse is investigating an outbreak of a gastrointestinal illness from a foodborne pathogen in the local community. How would the nurse identify this outbreak occurrence?

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An epidemic is a disease occurrence that exceeds the normal or expected frequency in a community or region. When an epidemic has worldwide in distribution, it is known as a pandemic. A secular trend is a long-term change in morbidity or mortality rates for a specific health-related state or event in a particular population. Hyperendemic is a persistently high level of disease occurrence.

The Community Health Nurse Is Investigating an Outbreak of a Gastrointestinal