In June 2007, West Nile Virus sickened 67 persons in New York and northern New Jersey, causing the death of 7 persons. This outbreak report summary is an example of
1. Analytic epidemiology.
2. Descriptive epidemiology.
3. Environmental epidemiology.
4. Experimental epidemiology.
5. International exposure epidemiology.
ANS: 2
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