Tag: Outbreak Investigation

What is the value of an epidemic curve?The investigators suspected that this was a vehicle-borne outbreak, with food as the vehicle. What is a vehicle? What is a vector?

CDC Outbreak
For this assignment, use the information in the case to answer the following questions. Click on each number for details about the assignment question.

Would you call this an epidemic? Would you call it an outbreak?

Describe the steps you would take if you were leading this outbreak investigation.

The investigators suspected that this was a vehicle-borne outbreak, with food as the vehicle. What is a vehicle? What is a vector?

What is the value of an epidemic curve?

Using the data in the line listing below, download and complete the attack ratio table (Attached).

Which food is the most likely vehicle of infection? Explain your reasoning.

What prevention techniques have you learned about in the course materials and your discussions with your classmates that could have averted this outbreak?

Outbreak Investigation

This week, you will conduct an outbreak investigation of a disease.

You are an epidemiologist for your local health department, and you are conducting an outbreak investigation of the disease you chose for this week’s discussion.

In your role as a health department official, you are interviewing a fictitious patient who has/had this disease.

Using research you gathered when completing your discussion assignment, complete this questionnaire downloadwith this fictitious patient’s information to determine clues to the outbreak.
Write a 1- to 2-page paper in which you present a hypothesis on how this outbreak could have been prevented.

What prevention techniques have you learned about in the course materials and your discussions with your classmates that could have averted this outbreak?

Your paper must be 3–4 pages in length (including the questionnaire). Include evidence or information from at least two credible external sources and follow APA style for formatting and citation.