Define Public Health

How would you get information about events, behaviors, or environmental conditions that affect public health?

What does a public health investigation start with?

Why do you think mosquito breeding could be relevant to the investigation?

Do you know of any diseases spread by mosquitoes?

What is epidemiology?

Relate what you saw in Mystery Illness in NYC to the process epidemiologists use.

Name some ways in which infectious diseases are transmitted from one organism to another.

How does understanding the source of transmission of a disease help stop its spread?

What evidence led investigators to conclude a mosquito was responsible for transmitting the disease?

Discuss how the CDC made its initial diagnosis, why everyone wasn’t convinced at first, and what convinced the CDC to reconsider its diagnosis?

Use the PPT to answer the chart.