Chapter 23, Problem 10CT

Summary Introduction

To answer:

In one week, a pharmacist in a small town of 4300people observes that hundreds of people are buying antidiarrheal medicines, and there is an epidemic gastroenteritis. What are the city services and utilities the epidemiologists will examine?

Introduction:

Gastroenteritis involves the swelling of the gastrointestinal tract that is also known as diarrheal infection, which is commonly caused by the virus. Gastroenteritis is also caused by the bacteriaand fungus. The most common viral agents that cause gastroenteritis areastroviruses, caliciviruses,and rotaviruses.