Translations:Basic Field Epi: Participants' Workbook/122/en

We are also interested in the way disease may spread through the population. Some diseases spread quickly through a population whereas other disease spread slowly. For diseases that are present in the population already (endemic diseases) the population will be made up of a mixture of susceptible animals, infected animals and recovered animals. Recovered animals may or may not be immune influencing whether or not they can get re-infected with the same disease if exposed again.