Disease Detectives B/C

[Flavorflav]

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?

That will depend on the individual event. Most of the time scored questions are used as tiebreakers - often open-ended ones, so the judges can say who had the better of two correct (or incorrect) answers. Sometimes there are questions which are only scored in the event of a tie. These are usually not numbered and marked as "Tiebreaker #1" etc., but the event writer can really do anything he or she wants.

[colombiano]

What is the term for a sudden increase in a disease?

Thanks in advance!!!

[robotman]

i do believe that would be an outbreak

[SidT]

But technically, you don't know whether or not this is higher than expected.

[denmarksoccer]

What is the term for a sudden increase in a disease?

Thanks in advance!!!

If it's not known whether or not this is more or less than expected, it is a cluster. If it is more than expected, it goes from outbreak (small area) to epidemic (larger area) to pandemic (countries or continents).

[roxas]

hey im in disease detectives for the first year what do i need to know?

[roxas]

is anybody there?:)

[AlphaTauri]

The rules should give you a pretty good idea of what to study.

As for sources of info, if the Wiki (Disease Detectives Wiki) and the links on soinc don't give you what you're looking for, there's always Google.

[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.

[oxfordcrew]

does anyone have any sites that I could go to, to help me study? I have no clue what I am doing!!!!!