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.
Question 1: Would you call this an epidemic? Would you call it an outbreak?
Question 2: Describe the steps you would take if you were leading this outbreak investigation.
Question 3: The investigators suspected that this was a vehicle-borne outbreak, with food as the vehicle. What is a vehicle? What is a vector?
Question 4: What is the value of an epidemic curve?
Question 5: Using the data in the line listing below, download and complete the attack ratio table .
You will complete this only for the 40 patients listed in the line listing below instead of the 75 that were interviewed. Which food is the most likely vehicle of infection? Explain your reasoning.