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Cases in Field Epidemiology: A Global Perspective

Mark S. Dworkin

©2011  
ISBN: 9780763778910

This collection of case studies—some never before published—uncover the details of actual disease outbreaks from within the United States and around the world. At the conclusion of each chapter, the investigator reviews the methods and processes that were employed to execute the investigation. Ideal as a complement to any text on infectious disease epidemiology, these case studies will bring to life the classic functions of field epidemiology and the application of epidemiological methods to unexpected health problems that require fast, on-site investigation and timely intervention. The cases cover investigations in infectious and non-infectious disease outbreaks, as well as environmental health related disease outbreaks.
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    Chapter 1 An Overview of Outbreak Investigation
    Author: Mark S. Dworkin

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    Chapter 2 How an Outbreak is Investigated
    Author: Mark S. Dworkin

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    Chapter 3 Leptospirosis at the Bubble
    Author: Kenrad E. Nelson

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    Chapter 4 Cholera for a Dime
    Author: Paul A. Blake

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    Chapter 5 Legionnaire's Disease
    Author: Steven B. Thacker

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    Chapter 6 The Investigation of Toxic Shock Syndrome
    in Wisconsin, 1979-1980 and Beyond
    Author: Jeffrey P. Davis

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    Chapter 7 The Early Days of AIDS in the United States:
    A Personal Perspective
    Author: Harold W. Jaffe

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    Chapter 8 Verify the Diagnosis: A Pseudo-Outbreak
    of Amebiasis in Los Angeles County
    Author: Frank Sorvillo

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    Chapter 9 Measles Among Religiously Exempt Persons
    Author: Charles E. Jennings

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    Chapter 10 An Outbreak of Fulminant Hepatitis B in
    a Medical Ward in Israel
    Author: Ronald C. Hershow

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    Chapter 11 What Went Wrong? An Ancient Recipe Associated
    With Botulism in Modern Egypt
    Author: J. Todd Weber

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    Chapter 12 Controlling An Outbreak of Shigellosis With
    a Community-Wide Intervention in Lexington
    County, Kentucky
    Author: Janet Mohle-Boetani

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    Chapter 13 Pork Tapeworm in an Orthodox Jewish Community:
    Arriving at a Biologically Plausible Hypothesis
    Author: Peter M. Schantz; Mary E. Bartlett

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    Chapter 14 The Massive Waterborne Outbreak of Cryptosporidium
    Infections, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1993
    Author: Jeffrey P. Davis

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    Chapter 15 A Community Outbreak of Hepatitis a Involving
    Cooperation Between Public Health, the Media,
    and Law Enforcement in Iowa, 1997
    Author: Patricia Quinlisk; Yvan J.F. Hutin; Ken W. Carter; Thomas M. Carney; Kevin Teale

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    Chapter 16 Tracking a Syphilis Outbreak Through Cyberspace
    Author: Jeffrey D. Klausner

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    Chapter 17 Eschar: The Story of the New York City Department
    of Health 2001 Anthrax Investigation
    Author: Don Weiss; Marci Layton

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    Chapter 18 Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever in Gabon: Chaos
    to Control
    Author: Daniel G. Bausch

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    Chapter 19 Whipping Whooping Cough in Rock Island County,
    Illinois
    Author: Mark S. Dworkin

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    Chapter 20 Emergency Yellow Fever Mass Vaccination
    in Post-Civil War Liberia
    Author: Gregory Huhn

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    Chapter 21 A Mumps Epidemic: Iowa, 2006
    Author: Patricia Quinlisk

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    Chapter 22 Something Borrowed, Something Blue: A Wedding
    To Remember
    Author: Cortland Lohff; Tom Boo; Patricia Quinlisk

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    Chapter 23 Toxic School Lunch: Chemical Poisoning of
    Elementary School Children in Joliet, Illinois
    Author: Alpesh Patel; Mark S.Dworkin

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    Chapter 24 When Your Food Glows Blue
    Author: Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner

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    Chapter 25 What Do People Eat When They Have No Food?
    A Tragic Story of Poverty, Monsoon Floods,
    and Weeds
    Author: Emily S. Gurley

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    Chapter 26 Toxic Tryptophan? Investigating the Eosinophilia
    Myalgia Syndrome in Minnesota
    Author: Edward A. Belongia

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    Chapter 27 A Mystery Illness in Panama
    Author: Lauren S. Lewis

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    Chapter 28 “We're Prepared to Believe You”: Investigating
    Cancer Cluster Reports
    Author: Tim E. Aldrich

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    Chapter 29 Fine Wines And Cohorts Take Time: The History
    of a Cohort Study of Workers Exposed To
    Ethylene Oxide
    Author: Leslie Stayner; Kyle Steenland

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    Chapter 30 Why Have the Children of Chernivtsi Lost
    All of Their Hair?
    Author: Daniel Hryhorczuk

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    Chapter 31 Not in My Backyard: An Investigation of
    the Health of a Community Living Near a
    Landfill
    Author: Preethi Pratap

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    Chapter 32 Back to School: Using Basic Epidemiological
    Data on Asthma in Urban School Children
    to Improve Respiratory Health
    Author: Victoria Persky

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    Chapter 33 Sex, Drugs, and Community-Based Ethnography:
    Field Investigations Involving Difficult
    to Reach Populations Around the World
    Author: W.Wayne Wiebel

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    Chapter 34 Investigation of Attitudes Towards Immunization
    in an Old Order Amish Community
    Author: Jonathan S. Yoder

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    Chapter 35 Performing a Seroprevalence And Ocular Study
    in Rural Guatemala: Toxoplasmosis, a Chronic
    Infectious Disease
    Author: Jeffrey L. Jones; Beatriz López

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