Choose one of the infectious diseases from the infectious disease list provided.
Discussion 1
Choose one of the infectious diseases from the infectious disease list provided. Use the name of the disease as your subject line.
I do want to offer one little reminder, the assignment asks you to tell me the following information:
1. R0,
2. how it is spread,
3. prevention,
4. high risk populations,
5. risk factors,
6. signs and symptoms,
7. last known outbreak (if applicable)
8. endemic areas,
9. incidence and prevalence.
Please make sure you cover all 9 items in order to maximize your earning potential. It is perfectly fine to number them or even to put the item first in bold and then provide the info. For example:
Signs and Symptoms – The signs and symptoms of WinterBreakItis include exhaustion, groaning when looking at your computer and feeling frazzled (Cameron, 2018).
OR, you can write it like a report. Any of the three are fine, just make sure I can pick out the 9 required elements. IF you have a disease that something doesn’t apply to – for example, if your disease is infective but not communicable, then you want to make that clear too. So a non-communicable disease won’t have a human R0 – because we don’t spread it among ourselves, we only get it from the source (i.e. a vector). Just tell me that. Or, if there has never been an outbreak, you would just say that. But don’t ignore any of the 9.
Discussion 2
Summarize the main findings of the article. Discuss the study design, the key evidence of the paper, and any problems with their research or the study design. Please choose to respond to a post about a different article for a discussion of how the data compares. After reading the article, do you think fluoride in water is a health risk?
1. Broadbent, J. M., Thomson, W. M., Ramrakha, S., Moffitt, T. E., Jiaxu, Z., Foster, P., Poulton, R. Community water fluoridation and intelligence: Prospective study in New Zealand. American Journal of Public Health, 105(1), 72–76. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4265943