Open Access‘The Disease Detectives’: a comic perspective on outbreak investigations
Author(s) -
Florian Burckhardt,
Esther Kissling
Publication year - 2007
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 9999-1233
DOI - 10.2807/esw.12.47.03315-en
Subject(s) - outbreak , perspective (graphical) , comics , computer science , data science , artificial intelligence , medicine , pathology
Outbreak investigations often share common methodologies and scenarios. One has to confirm the outbreak, establish a case definition, generate hypotheses, decide on a study design, gather data as fast and completely as possible, perform statistical analyses and (hopefully) identify the vehicle and take appropriate control measures.