Part I An Introduction to Field Epidemiology
Chapter 1 An overview of outbreak investigation - Mark S. Dworkin, MD, MPH&TM
Chapter 2 How an Outbreak is Investigated - Mark S. Dworkin, MD, MPH&TM
Part II Outbreak Investigations of Infectious Diseases
Chapter 3 Leptospirosis at the Bubbles- Kenrad E. Nelson, MD
Chapter 4 Cholera for a Dime- Paul A. Blake, MD, MPH
Chapter 5 Legionnaire’s Disease --Investigation of an Outbreak of a New Disease- Steven Thacker, MD, MSc
Chapter 6 The Investigation of Toxic Shock Syndrome in Wisconsin, 1979-1980 and Beyond- Jeffrey P. Davis, MD
Chapter 7 The Early Days of AIDS in the United States. A Personal Perspective - Harold Jaffe, MD
Chapter 8 Verify the Diagnosis --A Pseudo-outbreak of Amebiasis in Los Angeles County - Frank Sorvillo, PhD
Chapter 9 Measles Among Religiously Exempt Persons- Charles E. Jennings, BS
Chapter 10 An Outbreak of Fulminant Hepatitis B in a Medical Ward in Israel- Ronald C. Hershow, MD
Chapter 11 What went wrong? An ancient recipe associated with botulism in modern Egypt - J. Todd Weber, MD
Chapter 12 Controlling an Outbreak of Shigellosis with a Community-wide Intervention in Lexington County, Kentucky - Janet Mohle-Boetani, MD
Chapter 13 Pork Tapeworm in an Orthodox Jewish Community: Arriving at a Biologically Plausible Hypothesis - Peter Schantz, DVM and Mary Bartlett, BA
Chapter 14 The Massive Waterborne Outbreak of Cryptosporidium Infections, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1993- Jeffrey P. Davis, MD
Chapter 15 A Community Outbreak of Hepatitis A Involving Cooperation Between Public Health, The Media, and Law Enforcement in Iowa, 1997 - Patricia Quinlisk, MD, MPH, Yvan Hutin, MD, Ken Carter, Tom Carney, Kevin Teale
Chapter 16 Tracking a Syphilis Outbreak Through Cyberspace- Jeffrey D. Klausner, MD, MPH
Chapter 17 Eschar – The Story of the New York City Department of Health 2001 Anthrax Investigation- Don Weiss MD, MPH, Marci Layton, MD
Chapter 18 Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever in Gabon -- Chaos to Control Daniel G. Bausch, MD, MPH&TM
Chapter 19 Whipping Whooping Cough in Rock Island County, Illinois - Mark S. Dworkin, MD, MPH&TM
Chapter 20 Emergency Yellow Fever Mass Vaccination in Post-Civil War Liberia -Gregory Huhn, MD, MPH&TM
Chapter 21 A Mumps Epidemic – Iowa, 2006- Patricia Quinlisk, MD, MPH
Part III Outbreak Investigations of Intoxications and Other Noninfectious Causes
Chapter 22 Something Borrowed, Something Blue: A Wedding to Remember - Cortland Lohff, MD, MPH, Tom Boo, MD, and Patricia Quinlisk, MD, MPH
Chapter 23 Toxic School Lunch: Chemical Poisoning of Elementary School Children in Joliet, Illinois -Alpesh Patel, MBBS, MPH, CERC, CPHA and Mark S. Dworkin, MD, MPH&TM
Chapter 24 When Your Food Glows Blue- Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, MD
Chapter 25 What Do People Eat When They Have No Food? A Tragic Story of Poverty, Monsoon Floods, and Weeds - Emily Gurley, MPH
Chapter 26 Toxic Tryptophan? Investigating the Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome in Minnesota -Edward A. Belongia, MD
Chapter 27 A Mystery Illness in Panama - Lauren S. Lewis, MD, MPH
Chapter 28 “We’re Prepared To Believe You” -- Investigating Cancer Cluster Reports- Tim E. Aldrich, PhD, MPH and Julie Worthington, PhD, MPH
Part IV Cases in Environmental and Occupational Health
Chapter 29 Fine Wines and Cohorts Take Time: The History of a Cohort Study of Workers Exposed to Ethylene Oxide -Leslie Stayner, PhD and Kyle Steenland, PhD
Chapter 30 Why Have The Children Of Chernivtsi Lost All Of Their Hair? - Daniel Hryhorczuk, MD, MPH
Chapter 31 Not In My Backyard: An Investigation of the Health of a Community Living Near a Landfill- Preethi Pratap, PhD
Part V Investigating Hard to Reach and Special Populations
Chapter 32 Back to School: Using Basic Epidemiological Data on Asthma in Urban School Children to Improve Respiratory Health -Victoria Persky, MD
Chapter 33 Sex, Drugs, and Community-based Ethnography: Field Investigations Involving Difficult To Reach Populations Around The World- W. Wayne Wiebel, PhD
Chapter 34 Investigation of Attitudes Towards Immunization in an Old Order Amish Community- Jonathan S. Yoder MSW, MPH
Chapter 35 Performing a Seroprevalence and Ocular Study in Rural Guatemala – Toxoplasmosis, a Chronic Infectious Disease- Jeffrey L. Jones, MD, MPH and Beatriz López, QB
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