Outbreak control and management

Question 1

Types of infectious disease outbreaks
(FWECCH)

Answer 1

• Community outbreak
• Food poisoning
• Waterborne infections
• Health care associated infections
• Contaminated products
• Emerging infectious disease

Question 2

Define EID (emerging infectious disease)

Answer 2

Outbreaks of previously unknown diseases
+ Known diseases that are rapidly increasing in incidence or geographic range in the last 2 decades.

Question 3

Outbreak control

Answer 3

-Detect possible outbreak
-Find cases
-Generate hypothesis
-Test hypothesis
-Solve point of contamination and original source
-Control outbreak through recalls and facility improvement
-Decide when an outbreak is over