How many people died due to the 2014 ebola outbreak

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Assignment:

1. Based on your reading of textbook p. 6.

1a. What were the three countries that were primarily involved in the 2014 Ebola outbreak?

1b. How many people died due to the 2014 Ebola outbreak?

2. Based on the reading Giesecke, Johan. "Primary and Index Cases." The Lancet, vol. 384, no. 9959, 2014, p. 2024 define the terms primary case and index case.

3. Based on the WHO reading, "Factors That Contributed to Undetected Spread of the Ebola Virus and Impeded Rapid Containment."

3a. Discuss two reasons given for why families may have wished to care for a loved one with Ebola at home rather than have them go to a treatment center?

3b. What three other diseases were named as being endemic in West Africa that can be easily confused with Ebola?

3c. reflect on another point in this article that interested you.

4. Based on the WVTF podcast, why was the CDC giving cocaine to some people in Liberia during the 2014 Ebola epidemic?

5. Based on the reading, Zimmer, Carl. "How Scientists Stalked a Lethal Superbug-With the Killer's Own DNA." Wired, Conde Nast, 17 Jan. 2013, explains the rationale about how the patient called "patient 2" was found to not be the second patient.

6. Answer the following questions based on the article Nunez, Jonathan J., et al. "Hantavirus Infections among Overnight Visitors to Yosemite National Park, California, USA, 2012." Emerging Infectious Diseases, vol. 20, no. 3, 2014, pp. 386-393.

6a) What type of observational analytic study type (case study, case-control, etc) was employed during the 2012 Yosemite Hantavirus outbreak investigation? Defend your answer.

6b) One of the steps of outbreak investigation is to "establish criteria for case identification." What criteria were established that made a person a case patient in the 2012 Yosemite Hantavirus outbreak investigation?

6c) What control and prevention measures were taken in the 2012 Yosemite Hantavirus outbreak investigation?

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