BIOS 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: The Des Moines Register, Epidemiology, Athus
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Chapter 15: a community outbreak of hep a involving cooperation between public health, the media, and law enforcement, iowa, 1997 (allison) Hd determine when a hep a exposure has occurred in march of 1997, routine. Ph surveillance demonstrated that the number of hep a cases was increasing in. In 1996 0-3 cases were reported, in march 1997, 12 cases were reported, obviously more than expected. [drug use is not the first risk factor one might think of when considering hep a thus an outbreak of hep a among methamphetamine users is unique] Cdc: eis officer / narcotics: director division of narcotics enforcement, Department of public safety / newspaper: science writer at des moines register / Press liaison: communications director at idph / state epidemiologist. Perform additional analyses or plan and perform (pg155) between june & july of 1997 a case-control study was conducted to identify specific modes of hep a transmission among persons using methamphetamine additional study.
