P H 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cryptosporidiosis, Bubonic Plague, Rna Virus
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9/21/17: types of epidemiologic studies, intervention (experimental/quasi-experimental, randomized controlled trial (rct) is the gold standard, cohort study, retrospective, prospective, case-control. Pap smear to look for abnormalities of the cervix: specificity: tests that produce few false positives, e. g. Colposcopy biopsy of abnormal cervical cells: rates, common rates, birth: # live births/1000 people, mortality: # deaths/1000 people. Black death : tuberculosis, smallpox, cholera, typhoid, typhus, yellow fever, diphtheria, measles. Typhoid is a foodborne illness, so by preparing food for people she infected several people. She refused to stop working and eventually had to be quarantined. Influenza: spanish flu of 1918 killed between 50-100 million (20 million in. In san diego (202 out of 3337 with spanish flu died): https://www. sandiegoreader. com/news/2009/sep/23/unforgettable- pandemic-1918/# However, anthropologic work in the mid-20th century showed that members of certain tribes had the custom of eating internal organs of family members. Video notes - zika: fever, headache, rash.
