Section outline

  • Lecture objective

    a) To describe the first three steps of an outbreak investigation

    b)understand how to prepare for field work

    c) to know how to establish the existence of an outbreak

    d)  to find out how to  Verify the diagnosis

    Lecture outcome

    At the end of this lecture the student will be able to

    a) know how to prepare for field work in two categories

    b) Establish the existence of an outbreak by   Identifying the exposures and confirming unusual occurrence)

    c) verify the diagnosis by various ways

    Lecture content

    a) Step 1 of an  conduction of outbreak investigation

    b) step 2 of an  outbreak investigation

    c) Step 3 of an outbreak investigation