Outbreak
Outbreak
Outbreak
By : Nigesh
Contents
• Definition
• Outbreak history
• Steps of outbreak investigation
• Types of outbreak
DEFINITION
• The occurrence in a community or region of
cases of an illness with a frequency clearly in
excess of normal expectancy.
• Outbreak: A higher-than-expected number of
occurrences of disease in a specific location and time.
Worst outbreaks - history
Ebola - 2014-2015
Plague - black death
in 400 BC
Small pox - 1492 to 1900
• Malaria
2800 children –dies per day
When was the first malaria outbreak?
It has probably afflicted humans throughout
our evolutionary history, although the first
historical reports of symptoms that match
those of malaria date back to the ancient
Egyptians (around 1550 B.C.) and the
ancient Greeks (around 413 B.C.).
COVID-19
2019-till now
In Nepal
Total cases-979,000(+9)
• Deaths
• 11,951
In world
Total cases
508M
Deaths
6.21M
STEPS OF AN OUTBREAK INVESTIGATION