{"id":1075,"date":"2019-01-08T15:33:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T15:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-environmentalhealth\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1075"},"modified":"2019-01-08T15:33:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T15:33:38","slug":"introduction-19","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-environmentalhealth\/chapter\/introduction-19\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction","rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"raw":"The World Health Organization defines an outbreak as \u201cthe occurrence of cases of disease in excess of what would normally be expected in a defined community, geographical area or season\u201d (WHO, 2016). To help educate the general population on this critical topic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has developed an interactive game that allows the user to decipher clues about a specific outbreak in order to stop its spread. This chapter goes into detail about which organizations are specifically responsible for handling outbreaks if they are to occur, as well as explains the proper procedures needed to be the best \u201cdisease detective.\u201d This chapter will also correlate the interactive game to real-life practices in epidemiology.","rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization defines an outbreak as \u201cthe occurrence of cases of disease in excess of what would normally be expected in a defined community, geographical area or season\u201d (WHO, 2016). To help educate the general population on this critical topic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has developed an interactive game that allows the user to decipher clues about a specific outbreak in order to stop its spread. This chapter goes into detail about which organizations are specifically responsible for handling outbreaks if they are to occur, as well as explains the proper procedures needed to be the best \u201cdisease detective.\u201d This chapter will also correlate the interactive game to real-life practices in epidemiology.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-1075\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li><strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Dylan Jablonski, Haley Kappus-Kron, Imari Johnson, and Malique Hyde. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-environmentalhealth\/\">https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-environmentalhealth\/<\/a>. <strong>Project<\/strong>: Models and Mechanisms of Public Health. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-NC-SA: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":89971,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"\",\"author\":\"Dylan Jablonski, Haley Kappus-Kron, Imari Johnson, and Malique Hyde\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-environmentalhealth\/\",\"project\":\"Models and Mechanisms of Public Health\",\"license\":\"cc-by-nc-sa\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-1075","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":1073,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-environmentalhealth\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-environmentalhealth\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-environmentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-environmentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-environmentalhealth\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-environmentalhealth\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1075\/revisions\/1076"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-environmentalhealth\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/1073"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-environmentalhealth\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1075\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-environmentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-environmentalhealth\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-environmentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-environmentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}