Outbreak Investigations Around the WorldMark Dworkin Outbreak Investigations Around the World is a collection of 17 case studies - some never before published - that uncover the details of actual infectious disease outbreaks from within the U.S. and around the world. Each case study is retold by the investigator who recalls the critical issues considered along the way. At the conclusion of each chapter, the investigator reviews the methods and processes that were employed to execute the investigation. Some of the most interesting investigations included in the text are: Legionnaires' pneumonia in Philadelphia the beginning of the AIDS epidemic |
Contents
Chapter 1 How an Outbreak is Investigated | 1 |
Chapter 2 Leptospirosis at the Bubbles | 19 |
Chapter 3 Cholera for a Dime | 37 |
Investigation of an Outbreak of a New Disease | 65 |
Chapter 5 The Investigation of Toxic Shock Syndrome in Wisconsin 19791980 and Beyond | 79 |
A Personal Perspective | 103 |
A Pseudooutbreak of Amebiasis in Los Angeles County | 117 |
Chaper 8 Measles Among Religiously Exempt Persons | 133 |
Arriving at a Biologically Plausible Hypothesis | 189 |
Chapter 13 The Massive Waterborne Outbreak of Cryptosporidium Infections Milwaukee Wisconsin 1993 | 197 |
Chapter 14 A Community Outbreak of Hepatitis A Involving Cooperation Between Public Health the Media and Law Enforcement Iowa 1997 | 239 |
Chapter 15 Tracking a Syphilis Outbreak Through Cyberspace | 275 |
The Story of the New York City Department of Health 2001 Anthrax Investigation | 291 |
Chaos to Control | 323 |
Chapter 18 Whipping Whooping Cough in Rock Island County Illinois | 347 |
Chapter 19 Emergency Yellow Fever Mass Vaccination in PostCivil War Liberia | 373 |
Chapter 9 An Outbreak of Fulminant Hepatitis B in a Medical Ward in Israel | 145 |
Chapter 10 What Went Wrong? An Ancient Recipe Associated with Botulism in Modern Egypt | 163 |
Chapter 11 Controlling an Outbreak of Shigellosis with a CommunityWide Intervention in Lexington Kentucky | 177 |
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