Questions and Topics We Can Help You To Answer:
Paper Instructions:    
Go to the Florida Department of Health  (Links to an external site.)List of Reportable Diseases/Conditions for Health Care Practitioners (Links to an external site.) (2016)  (Links to an external site.)
Review the list of the diseases and conditions and the Florida statute that requires the release of the information to public health officials (at the bottom of the list)
Utilizing this listing, choose one disease or condition to investigate.
After selecting the disease or condition, review information about it. Be sure to find creditable, reliable and up to date data sources. Examples include:
Control of Communicable Diseases Manual (Links to an external site.) (18th ed.)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Links to an external site.)
World Health Organization (Links to an external site.)
Florida Department of Health (Links to an external site.)
Develop a voice-over PowerPoint.
The ppt should be divided into slides covering each of the following ten topics. Your presentation can be more than nine slides if you need more than one slide for one of the sub-topics. Your presentation should not exceed 10 minutes in length.
Epidemiological data – Outline taken from the CCDM pages xxiii – not every disease or condition will meet all nine areas. If not, discuss the area as not applicable.

1. Identification 

Main clinical features and what differentiates it from others that may have a similar clinical picture.
Laboratory tests most commonly used to identify or confirm the agent
The Florida reporting timeline criteria
2. Infectious agent

The specific agent or agents causing the disease
Classification – Bacteria, Fungi, Parasite, Virus, Rickettsia or Prion
Important characteristics – Infectivity, Pathogenicity, Virulence, Toxicity, Invasiveness, and Antigenicity
3. Occurrence

Where the disease is known to occur
In which population groups it is most likely
Information on past and current outbreaks may also be included.
4. Reservoir

Person, animal, plant, substance— or combination of these—in which an infection agent normally lives and multiplies 
5. Mode of transmission

Mechanisms by which the infectious agent is spread to humans
6. Incubation period

Time interval between initial contact with the agent and the first appearance of symptoms 
7. Period of communicability

Time during which the infectious agent may be transferred directly or indirectly from an infected person to another person; from an infected animal to humans; or from an infected person to animals. 
8. Susceptibility (including immunity)

Human or animal populations at risk of infection
Human or animal populations resistant to either infection or disease. 
9. Methods of control

A. Preventive measures for individuals and groups

B. Control of patient, contacts and the immediate environment

Measures designed to prevent further spread of the disease
Best current treatment to minimize the period of communicability and to reduce morbidity and mortality.
Recommendations for isolation of patients 
C. Epidemic prevention measures

Procedures of an emergency character designed to limit the spread
D. Disaster implications

Likelihood the disease might constitute a major problem if preventive actions are not initiated timely or ever in the event of an epidemic
Likelihood the disease might constitute use as a biological weapon 
10. Based on the Public Health Intervention Wheel definitions of investigation, surveillance and case finding, give examples of the public health nurse’s role related to your disease. Be sure to mention all three components from the wheel.

11. The final slide must include a reference list of sources used.