The statewide weekly incidence of the virus was 52 out of 100,000 people, Virginia public health officials said. The incidence rate, slightly lower than the nation’s 58 out of 100,000, is the frequency that a new illness occurs in a community over a period of time. That’s not to be confused with a measure of prevalence, the proportion of people who have an illness in a set time frame, regardless of when they first developed the infection.