An Ebola Outbreak

Description

Choose an existing disease causing agent (like salmonella, do not make a disease up) and create an outbreak around that agent. The outbreak has to be scientifically plausible in terms of disease conditions, modes of transmission, incubation periods, symptoms, and treatment. Make sure you explicitly state these aforementioned epidemiological principles of the disease causing agent as you create your outbreak. You will need to determine index case(s), discuss mode of transmission and spread, overall morbidity and mortality. Is there a doomsday scenario to the outbreak or can it be contained. If so, how and what would be needed? Talk about control measures and how they would be implemented. Discuss the number of people infected and at what rate, discuss the numbers of deaths associated with the infection and cost to control it or stop the spread. Remember that the outbreak has to be scientifically feasible. The paper should be at least 1000 words in length Arial font size 11. APA format

Rubric:

Identified actual disease

Epidemiology

Containment/Control Measures

Scientifically plausible

Citations in proper format

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Whenever there is a disease outbreak in a country, the government’s resources are usually overstretched. This is because the latter has to come up with ways of dealing with the increased demand for medical services…

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