What do you know about the case

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Maggie and Rusty shuffled the case interview reports back and forth across the table. "The individual reports don't tell me anything more than the summary table," said Rusty. "What do you think of that epidemic curve we just calculated?

"I think it's the strangest looking epidemic curve I've ever seen," replied Maggie. "Dr. Naisbitt, what do you think about this?"

"I think you'd better back to work on those attack rates and frequency tables," said Dr. Naisbitt. "I need to get a profile of person, place, and time, as well as aggregates at risk."

"I know, I know," Maggie said. "But really - what do you think caused the outbreak?"

"Well, I won't rule anything out for now, but we might want to look at some of the usual suspects," the doctor said. What do you think of this lineup: Staphyloccus aureus, Clostridium perfringens, gastroenteral virus, Salmonella, and Shigella?"

"I think you were right when you said we'd better get back to work," said Maggie. "I'd like to recheck the attack rates for each food item. After all, the agent is only a part of the picture.

"I guess what I'm really asking is why do you think all those people got sick? Newport Corners has a lot of community activities that involve meals, but we've never had an outbreak like this before. I thought the county had a pretty good primary prevention system in place. I wonder what happed."

Question 1: write an epidemic curve based on the patient interviews.

Question 2: What do you know about the case? What actual information do you have?

Question 3: What are your provisional hypotheses?

Question 4: What do you need to know to better understand the concepts or to solve the problem? What are the learning issues?

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