Question

research what outbreaks, disease, or pandemics have used the mitigation measure of Contact Tracing. After identifying those three outbreaks, write a three (or more) page paper that describes what type of infection was attempting to be contained, what patients were told to do to prevent the spread (if possible) the country(s) where the contact tracing occurred (for each), and what signs and/or symptoms patients or contacts were told to look for. This should be written using APA formatting

Answer 1

Outbreaks : Ebola Virus Disease

Ebola virus had a very huge outbreak in Africa.
contact tracing was done in the case of ebola virus , the patients and the contacts were closely watched for 21 days. A person with the disease can spread disease to people in contact with him/ her . So it's very important to identify and isolate them.
1 . The symptoms of Ebola virus are • Fever • Headache •Muscle pain • chills • diarrhoea •breathing difficulties etc.
2. Patients also will experience pain in abdomen , chest, joints, etc.
3. high risk category of contacts are : •the ones who has been in close contact with the infected patients   •touched and cleaned the infected patients surrounding , clothes, or plates.
•health care workers

To prevent Ebola virus, people were told to stay away from areas where infection outbreak is high. Avoid infected people and their body fluids , avoid contact with wild animals like bats and monkeys.

The countries infected with Ebola virus was: Liberia

• sierra leone

•guinea

nigeria

contact tracing was done in every country that was infected.

Outbreak: Nipah Virus

Nipah virus is a zoonotic virus, can be transmitted through contaminated food and infected people , The outbreak was seen in Malaysia , Bangladesh, Thailand and Recently India.

signs and symptoms

Asympyomatic and Symptomatic

symptomatic • Mild Respiratory Infection

• Fatal Encephalitis

• Fever

• Myalgia

•Headaches

• sore throat

•vomiting.

• Encephalitis and seizures in severe cases

the incubation period for Nipah virus is 4-14 days

To prevent spread :

People were told to cut physical contact and stay away from infected people since there are no vaccines available.
since the virus can be spread through animals , people were also told to not come in close contact with animals like Pigs or mammals like bats, or even eat fruits or vegetables that are open or bitten by bats or any other birds or animals.

Contact Tracing :

contact tracing and quarantine for 14 days was the only way to control the outbreak of the Nipah virus.

Outbreak : CORONA VIRUS

CORONA VIRUS or Covid 19 is the most recent outbreak and Contact tracing was highly practiced throughout the world for the same.
It was first seen In Wuhan, China now every part of the world has Covid-19 positive cases.

Signs and symptoms

Asymptomatic and symptomatic

Symptomatic: Mild to moderate respiratory Illness

fever

chills

headache

Sore throats

coughs

diarrhoea

To prevent the spread

Quarantine and Contact tracing was the only option since the vaccine isnt still found.

any person who has come in contact with the infected patients should be quarantined for 14 days and a covid confirmation test has to be done.

to avoid spread there was a lockdown announced in every country and the physical contact with people has been cut off to get the situation in control

The countries largely affected with the virus is The United states and India presently.