SARS Outbreak Study 1

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Step 6: Plan of Action

Just as you are going over your descriptive analysis, Dr. Zapp calls you in your office to let you know that SARS diagnosis has been confirmed for all 12 dead cases from the Amoy Apartment Complex. Your primary goal now is to plan an effective outbreak management.

Outbreak management is the process of anticipating, preventing, preparing for, detecting, responding and controlling outbreaks in order to minimize their health and economic impact. During the outbreak management it may be necessary to take the following measures: quarantine (isolate a person until he or she is no longer infectious, based on the disease definition), isolation of contacts, and surveillance (passive and active)

Intellectually curious? Learn more about the laboratory methods used in the outbreak investigation.

9. What do you think will be appropriate measure to control these two outbreaks given what we know about SARS so far?
checkbox a. Isolation and quarantine
checkbox b. Educate the population on how to avoid infection
Learning
Objectives		   >   Introduction
to Study		   >   Student
Role		   >   Data
Collection		   >   Data
Analysis		   >   Plan of
Action		   >   Discussion
Questions
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