Case study developed by a working group created by the Master of Applied Epidemiology (MAE) - Field Epidemiology Training Programme (FETP) from the National Institute of Epidemiology (NIE), Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is inspired by an investigation conducted by Dr Swain, 2003 scholar of the MAE assigned to the state of Utah, India. Dr Gregory Armstrong and Jan Drobeniuc from the hepatitis division at the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provided comments and suggestions. Adapted for KU School of Health Sciences
Learning objectives
At the end of the case study, the scholar will be able to:
1. Identify the steps of the investigation of an outbreak;
2. Describe the characteristics of an outbreak in terms of time, place and person;
3. Use descriptive epidemiological data to generate hypotheses;
4. Use analytical epidemiological data to test hypotheses;
5. Formulate recommendations for the control of an outbreak.