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Question 1. In 2014, an unknown disease outbreak resulted in 69 subjects with the unknown disease in Democratic republic of Congo in Africa and 49 of those died. Midyear population of Democratic Republic of Congo in 2014 was 74,877,030.
Question 2. Calculate case fatality rate of unknown disease in 2014 outbreak in Congo.
Question 3. Calculate mortality rate in Congo from unknown disease in 2014 (use 100,000 as a scale)
Question 4. Based on the calculated disease occurrence measures in a&b, interpret the severity of the unknown disease and whether we would need to allocate money for preventive efforts and why.
Question 5. Calculate the incidence for each time point. (hint: Births count towards the total population in the following year; everyone is at risk except for those already with disease X at the beginning of the year)
Year
|
Total Population
|
New cases of disease X
|
Births
|
2016
|
2000
|
10
|
20
|
2017
|
|
5
|
10
|
a. Calculate the prevalence of disease X in year 2016: (show work)
b. Calculate the incidence of disease X in year 2016: (show work)
c. Calculate prevalence of disease X in year 2017: (show work)