Influenza in Ohio: An Urgent Call for Preparedness and Response
Your surveillance team has been informed of a vicious strand of influenza that will hit in the fall. You will write a brief to convince your state legislators of the need for consistent funding for the efforts of preparedness and response in infectious disease epidemiology. Use data from this Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Influenza website. In your brief, you will need to cover the following:
• Background on influenza
• Provide a short history of Influenza
• Describe two current research designs used to study influenza rates and influenza vaccination
• Discuss the epidemiology of the current strand of the influenza disease and provide:
• Demographic information
• Provide incidence, prevalence, morbidity, and mortality rates for your state
• Calculate disease rates for your state
• Discuss the potential for Antigenic shift
• Explain why it is important to maintain staffing and resource levels when there is not an outbreak
• Discuss the challenges to sudden influxes in funding during an outbreak
• Describe why it is as critical to fund infectious disease preparedness and response efforts as it is to combat things like obesity and the opioid epidemic
• Provide an analysis of the core challenges public health faces in an outbreak response
Influenza in Ohio: An Urgent Call for Preparedness and Response
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Background on Influenza
Influenza, is categorized among the most contagious respiratory illness in the world today. Even with advanced scientific technology, influenza still pose a threat to public health, largely because, 90 years since the discovery of the virus causing the disease, the only drugs available only reduce deaths and hospitalization (CDC). According to Bowman et al., (2017) the 1918 influenza pandemic was not the first nor was it the last lethal case. In several instances, this virus mutated and plague nations except that the year 1918 was quite violent. When it first appeared in 1918, its symptoms were unusual to a point doctors misdiagnosed it with cholera, dengue or typhoid. Post-1918, influenza remains a threat with CDC attributing 19000 to 58000 deaths to the disease since October 2022, with mortality high among infants and elderly persons.
Current Research Designs
The little progress in solving the influenzas threat is attributed to the little understanding of the disease
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