Based on follow up interviews, 7, 080 of the ill persons and 21, 250 of the well

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Based on follow up interviews, 7, 080 of the ill persons and 21, 250 of the well persons were found to have had close contact with someone who had exhibited Ebola-like symptoms. All other persons reported that they did not have close contact with someone who had exhibited Ebola-like symptoms. a. Calculate the attack rate for those who reported having close contact with a person exhibiting symptoms: b Calculate the attack rate among those who reported not having close contact with a person exhibiting symptoms: c. Based on this data, would you recommend primary, secondary, or tertiary prevention for the virus? Why?

Explanation / Answer

a) Attack rate = 7080/(21250+7080) * 100 = 24.9911754324 ~ 25%

b)Data(how many people are well and how many got ill out of persons who are not reported of having close contact with the Ebola patients) for this is not provided in the question). Please provide it in the comment section for this and next question to answer

c) It depends on :If attack rate who not reported having close contact is much lesser than who is having close contact we can recomend the type of prevention for this virus

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