Bernoulli was ahead of modern epidemiology

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2000

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Dietz, K.
Heesterbeek, J.A.P.

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The 300th anniversary year of Swiss mathematician Daniel Bernoulli’s birth is an appropriate time to reveal that he was, by a long way, the first to express the proportion of susceptible individuals of an endemic infection in terms of the force of infection and life expectancy.

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