In epidemiology a susceptible individual (sometimes known simply as a susceptible) is a member of a population who is at risk of becoming infected by a disease, or can not take a certain medicine, antibiotic, etc. if he or she is exposed to the infectious agent.
Read more about Susceptible Individual: Susceptible Individuals, Mathematical Model of Susceptibility, Susceptibility in Virology
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“Man’s mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)
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—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)