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Analyze the response to the epidemic in terms of effectiveness (consider addressing questions such as how fast was the response, how long did it take to contain it, was the number of people who investigated really necessary, is the situation resolved).
Discuss ways to reduce the incidence of such an outbreak (research how outbreaks of this disease occurred and how to prevent them). Jarod Hill Discussion In the recent years there has been two very scary diseases that broke out. One was called H1N1, and the other was E. coil. I honestly never knew how serious these diseases were when the news broke until the media started giving us the reports of how many people were being affected by these diseases. According to CDC approximately 60 million people became infected with 2009 HINI between April 2009 and March 13, 2010 (CDC, 2009).
As you see these number were through the roof. This was one of the most infectious outbreaks since 1918 flu pandemic. I was not thought of, and never knew about the flu outbreak in 1918. The other disease that broke through was E.coli. Supposedly there was bad package spinach, and other meats in dairy products that was being shipped to local food markets. According to FDA and California the outbreak sickened 199 persons across the United States and caused 3 deaths (FDA, 2006). Both of these diseases spread pretty quickly, and infected a lot of people across the United States.
The disease HINI was supposedly cause from having contact with a pig, and E.coli was spoiled food that came from across the united states in Germany. Describe the many participants that worked on this outbreak (Consider how folks from different disciplines worked together to track, study, and contain the disease when building your response).
Many people worked on tracking these diseases. From doctors, CDC, FDA, and the government. Of course diseases that have sudden breakouts like these require a lot of people to tackle the issue.
According to H1NI1 the CDC reported two cases of swine and influenza A in children in Southern California (Hawley, 2017). Also in 1936 Richard E. Shope first reported antibodies to swine influenza in humans, and shortly thereafter viruses isolated from swine and from humans were linked to the 1918 influenza virus (H1NI, 2017).
As we can see this disease has been around for some time now. People working all in different areas come together to try to get a hold on these instant outbreaks. Outbreaks come in go in the United states it will always work best for all parties to get their knowledge on what will be best on curing these sudden outbreaks that harm people. Many brains always work better than one.
References: H1N1 influenza. By: Hawley, H. Bradford, M.D., Magill's Medical Guide (Online Edition), January, 2017
Friis, R. H. and Sellers, T. A. (2014). Epidemiology for public health practice. Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning. Your response should be at least 250 words with at least two scholarly sources to support your response.