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In many ways, an epidemiologic investigation of a disease cluster seeks to prove that there has been an exposure aggregation among the individuals involved in the disease cluster. In other words, that these individuals have shared exposure(s) or risk factors which could have caused the unusual increase in morbidity or mortality (I.e. the disease cluster) in time and/or space.