Over 30 children younger than three years of age developed gastroenteritis after visiting a local water park. These cases repres
ented 44% of the park visitors in this age group on the day in question. No older individuals were affected. The causative agent was determined to be a member of the bacterial genus Shigella. The disease resulted from oral transmission to the children. Based only on the information given, can you classify this outbreak as an epidemic? Why or why not? If you were an epidemiologist, how would you go about determining which pools in the water park were contaminated?
No it cannot be classified as outbreak because an outbreak is when the number of affected individuals in an epidemic is much higher as compared to the estimated values. However, an epidemic is the one that affects the people around different countries of the globe.
This can be considered as endemic that is restricted to a certain set of people in a community
I would have studied pattern of movement of affected kids. The common pool to which all these kids visited can be the infectious one. Also one can test the pathogen in infected kinds, and look for similar pathogen in pool water through testing.
If a person has episodes of uncontrollable eating then the person is said to have a problem of bingeeating.
When a person shows a tendency of frequent and recurring binge eating then the person is said to have binge eating disorder.
Binge eating disorder is differentiated from another similar problem which is known as bulimia nervosa.
In the case of binge eating disorder a person has a tendency of binge eating but without purging, unlike bulimia nervosa where purging is a characteristic feature.
Purging is an attempt to get rid of the excess food consumed and this attempt is not made in case of binge eating.
it helps come up with a conclusions for variety of hypothesis that are created when studying environmental science. the scientific method is a way to test a hypothesis
