Prevalence is the fraction of the population with the disease: the ratio of the number of people with the disease to the number of individuals in the population.

Prevalence should not to be confused with incidence--the latter is a a measure of new occurrences of a disease within a given time interval, whereas prevalence counts total cases, regardless of when they were contracted.

Prevalence is typically greater than incidence, unless the disease is highly fatal

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