cdc epidemiologist
You are a Center for Disease Control (CDC) epidemiologist. The CDC is beginning a campaign to educate the public about infectious disease. You have been assigned to investigate an outbreak of a disease and make presentations at community libraries where people are at risk of getting the disease.
Choose one of the following diseases:
- Ebola in Africa (2015)
- measles in California (2015)
- any series of food-borne illness outbreaks, such as E. coli or salmonella
- non-polio enterovirus in North America (2015)
- AIDS (1980–present, worldwide)
- community-associated or hospital-associated MRSA (North America)
Using one or a combination of several of the following formats, put together a presentation to inform the public about your chosen disease.
- slideshow (Include images.)
- skit (Include a script.)
Your presentation, at a minimum, should include the following information:
- symptoms of the disease
- what causes the disease, how it spreads, and how it is treated
- history of the disease (including first known cases, current rate and risk of infection, and outbreak events)
- evolution (How did the disease become infectious to humans? Where did it originate?)
- risk factors for getting the disease and how the disease can be prevented
- anything else relevant or interesting to the public