What Is Infectious Disease Epidemiology?
Epidemiology of infectious diseases mainly studies the occurrence, epidemic process and influencing factors of infectious diseases in the population, and formulates countermeasures and measures for the prevention, control and elimination of infectious diseases.
Epidemiology of infectious diseases
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- Chinese name
- Epidemiology of infectious diseases
- Foreign name
- infectious disease epidemiology
- the study
- Studying infectious diseases in people
- Appear
- About 10,000 to 11 thousand years ago
- Epidemiology of infectious diseases mainly studies the occurrence, epidemic process and influencing factors of infectious diseases in the population, and formulates countermeasures and measures for the prevention, control and elimination of infectious diseases.
- Main research of infectious disease epidemiology
- 1. The history of the ancient human struggle against infectious diseases: According to the results of archeological studies, infectious diseases were prevalent about 10,000 to 11,000 years ago. Outbreak in Normans invading France in 846 AD
Epidemiology of infectious diseases
- 1. Tuberculosis: The incidence of tuberculosis is increasing year by year.
- 2. Cholera: There have been 8 pandemics.
- 3. Malaria: Since the 1970s, malaria has re-emerged in Asia and elsewhere. [1]
Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
- 1. AIDS: Found in 1980, it spread rapidly worldwide, especially in Africa and Asia.
- 2. Mad cow disease (new Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease): first discovered and reported in Britain in 1986. Many countries and regions in the world have mad cow disease, such as the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Switzerland, Denmark, France, Canada, Portugal and Oman. There are no reports of mad cow disease in China.
- 3.SARS: first reported in Guangdong, China in 2002. It is caused by a new type of coronavirus.
- 4. Human infection with avian influenza: caused by some subtypes of influenza A virus. First discovered in Hong Kong in 1997.
- 5. Others: such as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Lyme disease, West Nile fever, E. coli O157: H7 infectious diarrhea, etc. [1]