BIOS 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Case Fatality Rate, Cough Medicine, Lisinopril
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Chapter 27: a mystery illness in panama - stephanie (gayatri, 2017) He had reported this to the panama ministry of. The moh did a bacterial and viral lab testings but all lab results were negative. Presence or absence of fever [a clinically relevant item] In this case, the absence of fever lead investigator to believe that it was a toxin exposure. Often in developing countries, investigators will want to look/assume that an infectious disease is the cause of an illness [considering that is what is common and what they have the infrastructure to test for] Many times developing nations do not have lab to test toxins. The health studies branch (hsb) in the national center for environmental health (nceh) at the cdc was going to be leading the response . Although the moh has a lot of epi people they requested help from cdc because . A lot of people are dying (over 50%)
