Cases in Field Epidemiology: A Global Perspective A Global Perspective

This collection of case studies-some never before published-uncover the details of actual disease outbreaks from within the United States and around the world. At the conclusion of each chapter, The investigator reviews the methods and processes that were employed to execute the investigation. Ideal as a complement to any text on infectious disease epidemiology, these case studies will bring to life the classic functions of field epidemiology And The application of epidemiological methods to unexpected health problems that require fast, on-site investigation and timely intervention. The cases cover investigations in infectious and non-infectious disease outbreaks, As well as environmental health related disease outbreaks.

PartI An Introduction to Field Epidemiology
Chapter1 An overview of outbreak investigation - Mark S. Dworkin, MD, MPH&TM
Chapter2 How an Outbreak is Investigated - Mark S. Dworkin, MD, MPH&TM
PartII Outbreak Investigations of Infectious Diseases
Chapter3 Leptospirosis at the Bubbles- Kenrad E. Nelson, MD
Chapter4 Cholera for a Dime- Paul A. Blake, MD, MPH
Chapter5 Legionnaire's Disease --Investigation of an Outbreak of a New Disease- Steven Thacker, MD, MSc
Chapter6 The Investigation of Toxic Shock Syndrome in Wisconsin, 1979-1980 and Beyond- Jeffrey P. Davis, MD
Chapter7 The Early Days of AIDS in the United States. A Personal Perspective - Harold Jaffe, MD
Chapter8 Verify the Diagnosis --A Pseudo-outbreak of Amebiasis in Los Angeles County - Frank Sorvillo, PhD
Chapter9 Measles Among Religiously Exempt Persons- Charles E. Jennings, BS
Chapter10 An Outbreak of Fulminant Hepatitis B in a Medical Ward in Israel- Ronald C. Hershow, MD
Chapter11 What went wrong? An ancient recipe associated with botulism in modern Egypt - J. Todd Weber, MD
Chapter12 Controlling an Outbreak of Shigellosis with a Community-wide Intervention in Lexington County, Kentucky - Janet Mohle-Boetani, MD
Chapter13 Pork Tapeworm in an Orthodox Jewish Community: Arriving at a Biologically Plausible Hypothesis - Peter Schantz, DVM and Mary Bartlett, BA
Chapter14 The Massive Waterborne Outbreak of Cryptosporidium Infections, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1993- Jeffrey P. Davis, MD
Chapter15 A Community Outbreak of Hepatitis A Involving Cooperation Between Public Health, The Media, and Law Enforcement in Iowa, 1997 - Patricia Quinlisk, MD, MPH, Yvan Hutin, MD, Ken Carter, Tom Carney, Kevin Teale
Chapter16 Tracking a Syphilis Outbreak Through Cyberspace- Jeffrey D. Klausner, MD, MPH
Chapter17 Eschar - The Story of the New York City Department of Health 2001 Anthrax Investigation- Don Weiss MD, MPH, Marci Layton, MD
Chapter18 Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever in Gabon -- Chaos to Control Daniel G. Bausch, MD, MPH&TM
Chapter19 Whipping Whooping Cough in Rock Island County, Illinois - Mark S. Dworkin, MD, MPH&TM
Chapter20 Emergency Yellow Fever Mass Vaccination in Post-Civil War Liberia -Gregory Huhn, MD, MPH&TM
Chapter21 A Mumps Epidemic - Iowa, 2006- Patricia Quinlisk, MD, MPH
PartIII Outbreak Investigations of Intoxications and Other Noninfectious Causes
Chapter22 Something Borrowed, Something Blue: A Wedding to Remember - Cortland Lohff, MD, MPH, Tom Boo, MD, and Patricia Quinlisk, MD, MPH
Chapter23 Toxic School Lunch: Chemical Poisoning of Elementary School Children in Joliet, Illinois -Alpesh Patel, MBBS, MPH, CERC, CPHA and Mark S. Dworkin, MD, MPH&TM
Chapter24 When Your Food Glows Blue- Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, MD
Chapter25 What Do People Eat When They Have No Food? A Tragic Story of Poverty, Monsoon Floods, and Weeds - Emily Gurley, MPH
Chapter26 Toxic Tryptophan? Investigating the Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome in Minnesota -Edward A. Belongia, MD
Chapter27 A Mystery Illness in Panama - Lauren S. Lewis, MD, MPH
Chapter28 "We're Prepared To Believe You" -- Investigating Cancer Cluster Reports- Tim E. Aldrich, PhD, MPH and Julie Worthington, PhD, MPH
PartIV Cases in Environmental and Occupational Health
Chapter29 Fine Wines and Cohorts Take Time: The History of a Cohort Study of Workers Exposed to Ethylene Oxide -Leslie Stayner, PhD and Kyle Steenland, PhD
Chapter30 Why Have The Children Of Chernivtsi Lost All Of Their Hair? - Daniel Hryhorczuk, MD, MPH
Chapter31 Not In My Backyard: An Investigation of the Health of a Community Living Near a Landfill- Preethi Pratap, PhD
PartV Investigating Hard to Reach and Special Populations
Chapter32 Back to School: Using Basic Epidemiological Data on Asthma in Urban School Children to Improve Respiratory Health -Victoria Persky, MD
Chapter33 Sex, Drugs, and Community-based Ethnography: Field Investigations Involving Difficult To Reach Populations Around The World- W. Wayne Wiebel, PhD
Chapter34 Investigation of Attitudes Towards Immunization in an Old Order Amish Community- Jonathan S. Yoder MSW, MPH
Chapter35 Performing a Seroprevalence and Ocular Study in Rural Guatemala - Toxoplasmosis, a Chronic Infectious Disease- Jeffrey L. Jones, MD, MPH and Beatriz López, QB