Terms & Concepts
If a lot of a pathogen is needed to cause illness, it is said to have a high _____ ______.
What is infectious dose?
Andrew Wakefield's widely debunked study linked the MMR vaccine with this.
What is autism?
This disease associated with bioterrorism due to the 2001 attacks is also a naturally occurring illness, mostly in livestock.
What is anthrax?
This rules keep state health departments informed of cases and/or suspected cases of serious pathogens.
What are reporting rules?
Cholera is a fecal-oral disease, usually spread through this.
What is contaminated water?
This is the rate that investigators used to estimate the total number of cases during the Schwan's ice cream outbreak.
What is an attack rate?
This serious diarrheal illness can be a complication of treatment with antibiotics.
What is C. diff?
The pigs that infected farmers in the Nipah virus outbreak in Malaysia were infected by these animals.
Public health labs test for metabolic and other disorders in this screening program.
What is newborn screening?
The cause of the Schwan's ice cream outbreak was a contamination of the premix transport with this food.
What are eggs?
This type of transmission is considered indirect and was the route of transmission in the measles outbreak in the Special Olympics.
What is airborne transmission?
A vaccine for this disease was taken off the market due to a lack of public acceptance.
What is lyme disease?
This approach is based on the idea that the health of humans, animals, and the environment are all interconnected.
What is One Health?
A person suspected to have a certain illness is sometimes referred to as this.
What is a patient under investigation?
What is dehydration?
This type of study is used to determine if an exposure is associated with an infection.
Vaccines were developed in record time for this disease due to quick funding, ease of finding clinical trial participants, and multiple phases of clinical trials happening at the same time.
What is COVID-19?
This was the source of the monkeypox outbreak in the midwest in the early 2000s (the outbreak as a whole, not just one specific case).
What are imported rodents?
When collecting outbreak data in Minnesota, investigators are required to give this type of warning.
What is a Tennessen warning?
This technology has made it easier to determine which cases to include in foodborne outbreak investigations.
What is whole genome sequencing?
The Legionella outbreak in Hopkins is an example of this type of exposure source.
What is a continuous source?
The development of more rapid diagnostic tests would lessen the need of this type of antibiotic treatment.
What is empirical antibiotic therapy?
After 9/11 and the 2001 anthrax attacks, doctors were told to consider these animals after hearing certain "hoofbeats."
What are zebras?
Currently, public health labs are busy sequencing randomly sampled COVID tests to estimate the prevalence of different _____.
What are variants?
John Snow used this tool to investigate the distribution of cholera cases in London (hint: it is still used today in Legionella and other outbreak investigations).
What is a map?