Outbreak vs Prevalence - What's the difference?
outbreak | prevalence |
An eruption, sudden appearance
A sudden increase.
An outburst or sudden eruption, especially of violence and mischief.
(uncountable) A geological layer that breaks out
To burst out
To break forth
The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension.
(epidemiology) The total number of cases of a disease in a given statistical population at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in that population.
As nouns the difference between outbreak and prevalence
is that outbreak is an eruption, sudden appearance while prevalence is prevalence.As a verb outbreak
is to burst out.outbreak
English
Noun
(wikipedia outbreak) (en noun)- ''Any epidemic outbreak causes understandable panic
- There has been an outbreak of vandalism at the school.
- There has been an outbreak of broken windows in the street.