Choose an existing disease causing agent
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
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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. The government has to act quickly as the outbreak is likely to lead to the death of a lot of people. This is currently the situation in Freetown, Sierra Leone…………………………………………
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