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The Wikipedia article on attack rate cited on this entity defines the measure and describes its use in outbreak investigation and epidemic planning, but names no first use, no originating publication and no individual credited with introducing the term or the name attack rate.
What would resolve this A source tracing the term attack rate to a specific epidemiological or outbreak-investigation publication and naming when it entered standard use, or a scholarly consensus that the term developed gradually with no single point of origin.
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