Name some symptoms of lead poisoningand a possible source.
Re: Disease Detectives B/C
Posted: July 7th, 2018, 7:02 pm
by Things2do
Symptoms: Abdominal pain, Headache, Irritability, and maybe the gums turning blue? A cause typical to adults is drinking homemade alcoholic beverages that were made with a still that used parts of old car radiators. [size=5]In case you don't like that answer: You can get it from ingesting leaded paint.[/size]
Sorry for writing a novel in the [hide] title.
Re: Disease Detectives B/C
Posted: July 8th, 2018, 6:48 pm
by Birdmusic
Things2do wrote:
Symptoms: Abdominal pain, Headache, Irritability, and maybe the gums turning blue? A cause typical to adults is drinking homemade alcoholic beverages that were made with a still that used parts of old car radiators. [size=5]In case you don't like that answer: You can get it from ingesting leaded paint.[/size]
Sorry for writing a novel in the [hide] title.
Looks correct!
Re: Disease Detectives B/C
Posted: August 15th, 2018, 4:55 pm
by UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F
Okay, no one's asked for a while so: what is age adjustment and why is it done?
Re: Disease Detectives B/C
Posted: August 17th, 2018, 5:40 pm
by Froggie
UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F wrote:Okay, no one's asked for a while so: what is age adjustment and why is it done?
Age adjustment is a technique used to compare two groups with different age distributions. (?)
Re: Disease Detectives B/C
Posted: August 17th, 2018, 6:07 pm
by UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F
Froggie wrote:
UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F wrote:Okay, no one's asked for a while so: what is age adjustment and why is it done?
Age adjustment is a technique used to compare two groups with different age distributions. (?)
Yep, your turn.
Re: Disease Detectives B/C
Posted: August 30th, 2018, 5:36 pm
by Froggie
Sorry I forgot about this..
Some vocab questions (just define the word):
Active immunity
Confirmed cases
Probable cases
Possible cases
Hawthorne bias
Pathogenicity (of an agent)
Epi-curve