CH&E 4010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Contact Tracing, Foodborne Illness, Leaf Vegetable

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Community Health&Epidemiology
• Course: CH&E 4010
• Professor: Leslie Campbell

Document Summary

Ch&e 4010 lecture 2 january 13, 2021 outbreak. Learning objectives: at the end of the case study, participants should be able to, list the steps in an outbreak investigation, determine whether an outbreak exists. Identify appropriate members of an outbreak team and describe their respective roles. Interpret a basic epidemic curve: calculate and interpret food-specific attack rates to identify possible food vehicles of transmission, consider control measures. It is sunday july 21, 2019 and you are the communicable disease epidemiologist on-call for the niagara. Region public health department located in southwestern ontario. At around 3:30pm, an emergency room (er) physician from a local hospital calls you to report that he has seen seven patients in the last two hours with severe gastroenteritis. Several of the patients mentioned that they had attended a community fundraising barbecue earlier in the day and became ill shortly after eating. The er physician suspects that this may just the beginning of a foodborne illness outbreak.