Epidemiology Academic Essay

A food borne outbreak of gastroenteritis occurred after the conference dinner at the 2002 World epidemiology conference. You have a list of all 134 people at the dinner and of the foods served and have been asked to investigate the outbreak.

a) What would be your first 3 steps in investigating the cause of the outbreak?

b) Calculate the attack rates for those who ate and did not eat salad, caviar and chicken, as well as the difference in attack rates.

c) Can you calculate the risk ratio or the odds ratio for these foods? Explain. Calculate whichever one (s) are appropriate for each food.

d) Can you tell which food is the culprit? What other information do you need and what other analysis could you do?

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