IPHS 399 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Chest Radiograph, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Health
5 Mar 2017
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Chapter 5: legionnaire"s disease: investigation of an outbreak of a new disease - stephanie. First call was a nurse from hospital in. Philadelphia calling the influenza program at the cdc. N/a - never uncovered what caused outbreak, why it happened when it did, why it happened where it did, and why the legionnaires and others exposed at the hotel were victims . It was not until after the outbreak, that someone who worked in the cdc lab re- examined the investigation. Learned that gram-negative pleomorphic rod was the bacterium that caused the epidemic. The first human bacterial pathogen that had been discovered in decades. There were a lot of people involved from the beginning - epidemiologists, laboratory scientists, statisticians, specialists in toxicology/ pathology/ environmental health/ environmental engineering, state and local police, and the. This large tea was a result of concern about swine flu and biologic terrorism because of the bicentennial celebration and the pope was going to visit soon.
