Disease Detectives B/C

[EastStroudsburg13]

I don't think you should read an entire textbook, depending on its size. If it's relatively large, then you could be much more effectively managing your time seeing other resources or just flipping through the more major points within the textbook. I would suggest looking at the Disease Detectives Wiki and googling stuff from the event, as you an get some very good resources that way.

[ktrujillo52]

Yeah brah, take some tests! They help out the most.

[skater101]

what are some major diseases that are in this year 2010?

[soccerchick8908]

I know of for sure like Cholera, and Polio, Small Pox, really the same ones that have been on there for the past few years, except this year you get a cheat sheet :/ we get lazier and lazier every year. I wish they didn't allow notes in most of the events.

[jaydinwars]

you have to study and also you can go to soinc.com and you will find all the stuff you need there

[EastStroudsburg13]

It may be useful to know some diseases, but the majority of the event is finding statistics regarding a stroy of an outbreak that they give you. Vocabulary can also be a large part of the event, and they may sometimes ask you about famous epidemiologists and diseases, mostly as tiebreakers. This is a very good handout for this event as it covers almost everything for the event. The Science Olympiad homepage has very good resources, and the link goes to Disease Detectives specifically.

[ramen4dinner]

hey guys, i'm really curious
is the test more general knowledge, like the method and charts, or more specific knowledge, like specific diseases and stuff?

[EastStroudsburg13]

It may be useful to know some diseases, but the majority of the event is finding statistics regarding a story of an outbreak that they give you. Vocabulary can also be a large part of the event, and they may sometimes ask you about famous epidemiologists and diseases, mostly as tiebreakers.

So yes it's mostly the method and charts.

[smallpox]

Ahh, my favorite event! Snow and Jenner always pops up on my tests, what other famous epidemiologists/scientists are important for disease detectives?

[Jest]

It may be useful to know some diseases, but the majority of the event is finding statistics regarding a story of an outbreak that they give you. Vocabulary can also be a large part of the event, and they may sometimes ask you about famous epidemiologists and diseases, mostly as tiebreakers.

So yes it's mostly the method and charts.

Ok so if there is no tie, then the tie breaker questions are left ungraded?