When Investigating an Apparent Outbreak of Disease in a Population

question 15

Multiple Choice

When investigating an apparent outbreak of disease in a population, an epidemiologist could be expected to focus on

• A) How to cure the specific disease.
• B) How to statistically model characteristics of a population such as age and gender.
• C) The frequency and geographic distribution of the disease in this population.
• D) How the disease went from being endemic to epidemic.
• E) All of the above.

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