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This assignment reinforces information in your textbook and concepts presented in this unit. Your responses should be thorough, well-conceived college-level responses that are grammatically correct. Please write your answers in complete sentences. Justify your responses with facts and details from at least one outside source, your textbook, and your opinions. Please cite your source using APA format and include the URL(s) as applicable.
Research the case of Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary. This case is a classic method of learning the epidemiologic aspects of infectious disease and the associated social policies, health regulations and laws that resulted in the Salmonella Typhi outbreaks in the early 1900s. Respond to the questions below. Be sure to provide comprehensive answers.
- What are the signs and symptoms of Salmonella Typhi (Typhoid Fever)?
- What is the annual incidence of Typhoid Fever in the United States?
- What was the mechanism of disease transmission between Mary Mallon and those who became ill?
- How would you describe the Epidemiology Triangle in Mary’s case?
- What strategies did the society of the early 1900s use to prevent Mary from spreading the disease?
- What modern disease prevention strategies could be used to protect against spreading S. Typi by food handlers?
- After learning about Mary Mallon, what is your position on a policy to screen food handlers for infectious diseases, such as Typhoid Fever and Hepatitis A, which can be spread by food? Think carefully about the incidence of foodborne illnesses that would be a community threat, the impact the disease(s) have on the community, the cost of the screening, who will pay for screening and if the strategy will detect enough or prevent enough cases to warrant the public health policy.
A Good 15 minute audio story about the Typhoid Mary story- Recommend you listen
Here is a well told 15 minute story of Typhoid Mary produced by the Radiolab. Don't be confused by the odd introduction. The producers actually visit the North Brother Island, the site of Mary's quarantine.
http://www.radiolab.org/story/169882-typhoid-mary/ (Links to an external site.)
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Running head: TYPHOID FEVER
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Typhoid Fever
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TYPHOID FEVER
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Salmonella Typhi
Typhoid fever is commonly known as typhoid in medical field. It is a bacterial infection
which is caused by a bacterial known as Salmonella typhi in scientific name. The infection
mainly occurs in human beings with no known cases in other animal species. The infection has
got some common symptoms and signs which are very much known. The duration of actual
display after exposure time is six to thirty days. Let’s examine main symptoms of the infection.
1. What are the signs and symptoms of Salmonella Typhi (Typhoid Fever)?
The common signs and symptoms of the infection include high fever and temperature rise
in the body of the patient. Temperature rise is slowly in the first week, which rises with time.
Change in fever fluctuations then follow which are accompanied by general body weakness and
headache. Then occurrence of cough and body fatigue is common. In some cases, it is said that
patient experience bloody nose and abdominal pains. Chances of patients experiencing decline in
number of white blood cells is very common. The situation leads to emergency of leukopenia
and eosinopenia. Severe cases of chest pains do occurs accompanied by rose spots on lower part
of the chest and abdomen (Hendrickson, 2015). Most patients expe...
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