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Introduction to Epidemiology Text:

Friis, R. H. and Sellers, T. A. (2014). Epidemiology for public health practice. Review your classmate's posts and select two for your responses. Imagine that you are an epidemiologist and learned of the misconception that your classmate posted about.

Examine the steps that you would take to disprove that assumption.

Explain how you would communicate the new information to disprove the misconception to the public.

Your post should be at least 150 words. Jarod Hill Present an argument for why ice cream does cause polio and should be banned Ice cream can be addicting, and could cause polio if people overeat it.

Too much usually sugar, usually leads to long term health issues. When it is hot outside people usually have ice cream or Slurpee's to cool themselves down. Sugar is the main ingredients for both of those snacks. In the summer time there are usually more cases of polio, because of the heat. Grocery stores, and local community markets have deals all the time on ice cream and Slurpee's during the summer time.

Which makes people eyes see what they don't need. Now should ice cream be banned? Of course it should if it is giving people diseases.

In reality ice cream, and Slurpee's does nothing beneficial for the body. If we look at other countries, and see why they are healthier than us, is because a lot more stuff is made without sugar or salt.

Let's get it together America. Ban things that has not health benefit for one's body.

Explain how ideas like that spread, and why people make such assumptions When fake news is spread now days. It usually comes from our social media outlets, or news station. People tend to believe what they hear or see before actually doing their own research to see if the information displayed is true or not. Making assumptions has never been good for anyone. Usually when someone assumes they make a fool out you, and me.

Provide another real example of a misconception (you cannot use the flu examples posted above). In Australia parents have gone against going to get there kids vaccines in flu seasons.

According to the article flu vaccine confusion and safety lead to low vaccination rate in Queensland kids the lasts Australian child poll has revealed misconceptions about the flu vaccine are influencing where parents immunize their children (Newspaper source, 2017).

Reason why the decrease has occurred in world in the past years is, because parents believe that the vaccines don't do anything beneficially to the body, and on another note could cause harm.

Or parents also thing the vaccines makes people ill before it actually protects the body against any flu's. The article also stated "universally free, funded flu vaccines for children could have the potential to increase uptake rate among families and kids (Newspaper, 2017).

This is a very interesting news article to read. Reference: ABC Premium News. 05/12/2017. , Database: Newspaper Source Plus