496 Investigating Outbreaks
Can you list the reasons that public health agencies investigate reported outbreaks?
Can you list the steps in the investigation of an outbreak?
Can you define the terms "cluster", "outbreak", and "epidemic"?
Can you describe how to determine whether an epidemic exists, given the initial information of a possible disease outbreak?
Can you execute the initial steps of an investigation and developing biologically plausible hypotheses, given information about a community outbreak of disease?
Can you draw a traditional epidemic curve?
Can you calculate the appropriate measure of association and chi-square test, given data in a two-by-two table?