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)
“Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,—the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead. The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)