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Three steps to contain an outbreak of infection onboard | Gard's Insights

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An ‘outbreak’, in very simple terms is defined as prevalence of an infectious disease in a population. In the context of merchant ships, an outbreak is when multiple crew members are infected by the same infectious disease.

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