How many cases of gastroenteritis are estimated to have occurredworld-wide last year (if it is early in the year and the statisticsare not yet available, then state the previous year and itsstatistics)?
How many cases of gastroenteritis are estimated to have occurredworld-wide last year (if it is early in the year and the statisticsare not yet available, then state the previous year and itsstatistics)?
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You are the public health official! Review the following casestudy and discuss how you should proceed as anepidemiologist.
Case study: Over 30 children younger than three years of agedeveloped gastroenteritis after visiting a local water park. Thesecases represented 44% of the park visitors in this age group on theday in question. Older individuals were not affected. The causativeagent was determined to be a member of the bacterial genusShigella. The disease resulted from oral transmission to thechildren.
Based only on the information given, can you classify this outbreakas an epidemic? Why or why not? If you were an epidemiologist, howwould you go about determining which pools in the water park werecontaminated?
