Cases in field epidemiology: a global perspective

Pt. I. Outbreak investigations.

Overview of outbreak investigations / Mar S. Dworkin.

How an outbreak is investigated / Mark. S. Dworkin.

Pt. II. Outbreak investigations of infectious diseases.

Leptospirosis at the bubbles / Kenrad E. Nelson.

Cholera for dime / Paul A. Blake.

Legionnaire's disease: investigation of an outbreak of a new disease / Steven B. Thacker.

Investigation of toxic shock syndrome in Wisconsin, 1979-1980 and beyond / Jeffrey P. Davis.

Early days of AIDS in the United States: a personal perspective / Harold W. Jaffe.

Verify the diagnosis: a pseudo-outbreak of amebiasis in Los Angeles county / Frank Sorvillo.

Measles among religiously exempt persons / Charles E. Jennings.

Outbreak of fulminant hepatitis B in a medical ward in Israel / Ronald C. Hershow.

What went wrong? an ancient recipe associated with botulism in modern Egypt / J. Todd Weber.

Controlling an outbreak of shigellosis with a community-wide intervention in Lexington County, Kentucky / Janet Mohle-Boetani.

Pork tapeworm in an orthodox Jewish community: arriving at a biologically plausible hypothesis / Peter M. Schantz, Mary E. Bartlett.

Massive waterborne outbreak of Cryptosporidium infections, Milwaukee, Wisconsin / Jeffrey P. Davis.

Community outbreak of hepatitis A involving cooperation between public health, the media, and law enforecement, Iowa, 1997 / Patricia Quinlisk, Yvan J.F. Hutin, Ken W. Carter, Thomas M. Carney, Kevin Teale.

Tracking a syphilis outbreak through cyberspace / Jeffrey D. Klausner.

Eschar: the story of the New York City Department of Health 2001 anthrax investigation / Don Weiss, Marci Layton.

Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Gabon: chaos to control / Daniel G. Bausch.

Whipping whooping cough in Rock Island County, Illinois / Mark S. Dworkin.

Emergency yellow fever mass vaccination in post-civil war Liberia / Gregory Huhn.

Mumps epidemic, Iowa, 2006 / Patricia Quinlisk.

Pt. III. Outbreak investigations of intoxications and other noninfectious causes.

Something borrowed, something blue: a wedding to remember / Cortland Lohff, Tom Boo, Patricia Quinlisk.

Toxic school lunch: chemical poisoning of elementary school children in Joliet, Illinois / Alpesh Patel, Mark S. Dworking.

When your food glows blue / Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner.

What do people eat when they have no food? a tragic story of poverty, monsoon floods, and weeds / Emily S. Gurley.

Toxic tryptophan? investigating the eosinophilia myalgia syndrome in Minnesota / Edward A. Belongia.

Mystery illness in Panama / Lauren S. Lewis.

"We're prepared to believe you"

Investigating cancer cluster reports / Tim E. Aldrich.

Pt. IV. Cases in environmental and occupational health.

Fine wines and chohorts take time: the history of a cohort study of workers exposed to ethylene oxide / Leslie Stayner, Kyle Steenland.

Why have the children of Chernivtsi lost all their hair? / Daniel Hryhorczuk.

Not in my backyard: an investigatino of the health of a community living near a landfill / Preethi Pratop.

Pt. V. Investigating hard-to-reach and special populations.

Back to school: using basic epidemiologic data on asthma in urban school children to improve respiratory health / Victoria Persky.

Sex, drugs, and community-based ethnography: field investigations involving difficult-to-reach populatins around the world / W. Wayne Wiebel.

Investigation of attitudes toward immunization in an old-order Amish community / Jonathan S. Yoder.

Performing a seroprevalence and ocular study in rural Guatemala-toxoplasmosis, a chronic infectious disease / Jeffery L. Jones, Beatriz Lopez.