This Post has TWO Assignments:

Epidemic curve

Assessment 3.

Read the following then answer the questions:

During the winter break after the holidays, a number of students who
had been living in the new dorm returned the week before school resumed. The
new dorm’s cafeteria had been serving them 2 meals a day, breakfast and
dinner. On late Wednesday morning, students began to appear at the school
nurse’s office reporting symptoms of nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and fever.
The clean of students wants to know what is going on. She asks you to
determine the source of this disease outbreak. Forty-five students were living
in the new dorm on the day of the outbreak. You locate and interview all 45 of
them, thereby collecting the data presented in the table below:

1. Draw the epidemic curve using appropriate time periods. Comment on
the curve shape. What is the type of exposure? (10 marks)
2. If you knew that the minimum incubation period of the disease is 5 hours
and the average incubation period is 10 hours. Using the epidemic curve
you had drawn, determine the likely exposure period. (4 marks)
3. Which food item served at lunch was responsible for the outbreak?
Justify your answer. (6 marks)

Throughout history, human populations have experienced major outbreaks of infectious diseases,
you can use this references Click http://www.cdc.gov/ophss/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson6/section2.html link to open resource.

2. Photo-essay– Eames House:

Based on your idea for a research topic related to the Eames follow the following steps:
– State your main concept for your topic.
– Select and generate a series of photo images (can be illustrations as well) which you can draw from the field trip and research on and off line.
– Create a photo essay time-line which should be organized according to your argument and topic explication.
– Remember, your photo essay relies primarily on images but should be anchored in research and textual explanations (e.g. subtitles or captions) that reference the images.
– 10-30 images with text

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