Outbreak Case Studies

History of Present Illness: The patient was presented with a one day history of shortness of breath (SOB), respiratory distress, decreased food intake and occasional cough. According to his mother, he was in his usual state of health until the night before he got to the hospital nearby their house. She noted him to be working hard to breathe with retractions and wheezing, also noted him to refusing to eat and occasional coughing. His mother stated that she took him to his PCP for his immunizations; from there he developed a fever after the vaccine, which was resolved after a day. Mother denies any skin contact, any diarrhea, constipation, vomiting or any other signs or symptoms. After that, she took him to an emergency room (ER) at Southwest where he received multiple DuoNebs, NS bolus, Racemic Epinephrine and was

Lafayette College policy requires all the freshmen living in college dormitories to receive vaccination against meningococcal disease. Since the meningitis immunization is not an establish practice in my home country Georgia, Lafayette administration proposed to conduct the vaccination in the United States, in its affiliated health center Bailey’s. Like most international students, I received meningitis B vaccination on the second day of my arrival on campus.

I like the example of the Ebola outbreak as an example of the ineffective leadership. I think that one of the factors that explain how the 2014 Ebola epidemic got out of control was the lack of productive collaboration between public health officials. This ineffective leadership led to a nonintegrated domestic and international collaboration. To even think of public health as something related only to a country is the biggest misapprehension. Public health leaders need to constantly exchange experiences, ideas, strategies, and interventional plans. As Rowing mentioned, the public health leaders are representatives of diverse disciplines and multiple sectors of the industry, and more often than not, they have different views and precedence.

It is standard journalistic practice that a story must be news worthy in order for it to be of any significance. Newsworthiness is determined by the following criteria impact, timeliness, prominence, proximity, the bizarre, conflict, human interest, and currency. (SPJ) Reports must demonstrate how their story fits into one of these criteria before it can be considered news. While these factors of newsworthiness are not lost in today’s media, many media outlets have started to sensationalize the news in an effort to get rating. In today’s fragmented news society ratings have become the dominate motive behind news stories. Recently that has been a lot of information in the news concerning the Ebola outbreak. This coverage has posed many questions from an ethical and a legal standpoint.

It begins as minor flu symptoms. But then things seem to never get any better. As symptoms become more severe, a person is advised to go see a doctor. It turns out the individual did not have the flu. It was something far worse, something more treacherous, something more contagious, something chilling, something life-threatening. This disease is known as bacterial meningitis. It is possibly a college student’s worst nightmare, and a disease that students should be well informed about. But while the bacterial infection is rather rare, it’s also terminal, killing 10 to 12 percent of those it infects, sometimes within hours. The disease attacks and closes up major organs and prevents blood from circulating to limbs, causing tissue to die.

1)Conduct Needs Assessment: Conducting a needs assessment within the specific areas of West Africa that are impacted by Ebola is necessary. Educating these certain high risk areas is better since it can contain the exposure to other communities in West Africa. By conducting the needs assessment in this way, we can narrow down and focus on a certain population to make sure that they are aware of how to protect themselves from the fatal disease.

Differing interests and agendas impeded the containment of the Ebola virus. Most problems arose within organizations, between governments, and between outside organizations and governments. The local government and civil society organizations already had their own agendas and were known to be corrupt. The corrupt nature of the local-based organizations hindered relief during the Ebola epidemic. Furthermore, the citizens of Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone were mistrusting of the government. Because the citizens were mistrusting of their own people, they became doubtful of the outside organizations providing relief and in turn, it became problematic for outside organizations to do their work. Even the cooperation between outside organizations

Ebola is a disease outbreaking and killing off many Africans. It was also brought to the U.S. and infected people. the first case in the latest Ebola outbreak was in December 2013 in Guinea. in guinea the health facilities are weak and the doctors and medical workers aren't ready for such a big project and

Hence, the second and the third carriers were numbers fourteen, two, sixteen, eight and seven. Nevertheless, the least two authentic infectious disease that could cause an epidemic are Zika and HIV. Thus, there are various ways to protect oneself from an infection such as washing hands regularly, avoid touching your face, eyes, and nose, and eat a healthy balance meal. In the graph above, it shows four different blood types of the suspects at the crime scene. However, suspects one, two, and four did not match the blood AB negative at the crime scene. Therefore, these suspects were innocent because the samples did not prove they were the people who commented the crime. However, the suspect blood that matched at the crime scene was suspect number three because he had a blood type of AB negative. Thus, this result does not imply that the person was the actual crime because there is only one evidence. There should be other evidence such as cameras, fingerprints, or eyewitness to make sure that it was suspect number three. On the hand, if there was a hospital emergency instead of the police station, and suspect blood number one could be only used for transfusions or donated without

This Ebola outbreak first began the jungles of West Africa and has spread throughout several countries in the area, but not the U.S. This is because of many factors, including traditional medical practices in Africa, lack of technology in many African areas, and access to advanced medical facilities in the U.S. The most significant of these is Africa’s lack of highly technological medical care.

An outbreak has occurred on campus, about nine college students were seen in the informatory on campus. They all had similar symptoms such as: headache, extremely tired, fever and some experienced dry itchy or sore throats, and some felt like there body was sore or tight. So we took some bodily samples from the patients and tried to identify the bacteria or virus. We identified the bacteria/virus by using the blast website. Then we ran an ELISA test on eight of the nine patients. Of the eight only Jill, Maria, Marco and Sue tested positive for meningitis. Sue and Jill are roommates, and Maria lives on the same floor and often visits Sue and Jill. Marco is Sue’s Bio partner. They all tested positive for meningitis. We believe Sue was the first one to be infected with meningitis and the spread it to her roommate Jill, Maria who lives on the same floor and often visits the girl, and Marco who is Sue’s lab

The recent outbreak of the Ebola virus in the U.S. has raised the question on how safe are the health care workers that are exposed to the infected patients. The dangers of contracting the virus and dying is too high; also, due to emotional and physical reaction to hospital environment, I personally would not be able to give adequate care to Ebola patients and knowing a cure is not available. The risks of caring for these patients is not worth my life; I would refuse to work as a health care provider for Ebola patients.

The words “infectious disease” have been feared by humans from the time they were initially discovered and this fear continues to persist into the current status of the 21st century. This inherent fear stems from the ability of the tiny, pathogenic microorganisms responsible for these infectious diseases to wipe out thousands, or even millions from the human population. Though some may view infectious disease is an issue of the past, it still wreaks havoc in many of the worlds’ developing nations (Tambo et al., 2016). Developed countries such as Canada and the U.S. have seen an epidemiologic transition of the top killers of disease; moving away from traditional infectious disease to more modern chronic illnesses including cancer and cardiovascular disease (Gordis, 2014). However, developing countries in Africa are lagging behind, and are still experiencing a disproportionate rate of infectious disease. Two of the culprits responsible for these high infectious disease rates in Southern and Western Africa, are HIV and Ebola, respectively (Wainberg et al., 2014).

It has been reported that by the year 2000 in May, there was an outbreak of the waterborne disease in the richest province of Canada which is the moderately prosperous town of around 5,000 people. This disease resulted in killing around 7 people and also caused various serious illnesses in many other people. This contamination was however based on the tracing of the source which has been identified around 22 years back as being the major risk. The operators of the system were oblivious regarding the danger and also based on the various regulatory responsibilities regarding the drinking water safety. This issue has been overlooked as it exists in the safe drinking water. This case has been prevailing in the form of sequence of

OF the three persons- Picket, Bennett, and Reinhardt- who was most likely to have been infected during the picnic outbreak? Who was most likely to have been infected before the picnic? Going by the facts for typhoid disease from Merck, stools are positive during the 3rd to 5th week, therefore Irene Picket and Kenneth Rinehart should have been infected before the picnic and Margaret Benet at the picnic. Her stools were positive after the 3rd to 5th week time period for the picnic.