Emerging Diseases Homework
for the week of October 10, 2011
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 Day & Date Assignments
Monday, October 10 No school - Columbus Day
Tuesday, October 11 Class: we'll begin with notes about epidemiology today.
Video: an epidemiologic investigation of contaminated water in Milwaukee.
Wednesday, October 12 Class: we'll finish the notes today.
Quiz: on the first set of vocabulary words.
Thursday, October 13 Class: we've got an article we'll be reading in class today and tomorrow.
Friday, October 14 Project: Cootie project is due today. The project will not be accepted late.
Class: we'll finish the article today and start with some case studies on Monday.
Week of October 17 Case studies beginning Monday and continuing through Thursday.

You do, of course, realize this is why dogs bite people, right!?

Vocabulary words for Disease and Transmission: biologic transmission, carrier, cause of disease, chain of infection, common source outbreak, contagious, direct transmission, droplet spread, exposure, incubation period, indirect transmission, infection, latency period, mechanical transmission, morbidity, point source outbreak, portal of entry, portal of exit, reservoir, vector, vehicle

Vocabulary words for Epidemiological Investigations: analytic epidemiology, applied epidemiology, attack rate, case definition, case-control study, case-patient, cluster, cohort, cohort study, contact, demographic information, descriptive epidemiology, distribution, dot plot, environmental factor, epidemic curve, epidemic period, histogram, odds ratio, relative risk, scatter diagram, spot map


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