Outbreak at Watersedge: A Public Health Discovery Game
The start of the participation in the epidemiological process begins with the location of the Department of Health. The sole reason for this is to get the necessary personnel and resources which are very essential in doing an effective epidemiology process. The department is endowed with experienced medical officers like the chief epidemiologist who has a wide ranging experience in water borne diseases.
At the Department of health, together with the available health personnel I got various medical profiles of different patients handed over to me. The profile contained medical status of the patients over the last few days after they were put under observation on suspicion that they were suffering from water borne disease. Diarrhea was one of the severe symptoms. I also noted that many other patients were getting admitted to the hospital at an alarming rate. This could signify that the disease was spreading fast.
After taking such notes, I set out to interview some of the infected patients with the view to get an idea of how they could have contracted this infection. I focused on key issues such as the most recent places the patients visited and the activities they got involved in. this would inform the mapping of areas suspected to contain the bacteria spreading the disease. Only places which were mentioned repeatedly by the patients would be mapped and studied by taking samples and carrying out a diagnosis.
The patients mentioned a number of places which included the zoo, malls, recreation...
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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. (2014). Annual epidemiological report: Emerging and vector-borne diseases. Retrieved September 29, 2017 from https://ecdc.europa.eu/sites/portal/files/media/en/publications/Publications/emerging-vector-borne-diseases_annual-epidemiological-report-2014.pdf
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