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An Outbreak of Gastrointestinal Illness following a Church Supper

1. Would you call this an epidemic? Would you call it an outbreak?
2. Review the steps of an outbreak investigation
3. List the broad categories of diseases that must be considered in the
differential diagnosis of an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness.
4. In epidemiologic parlance, what is a vehicle? What is a vector? What are other
modes of transmission?

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