epidemiology question 10
For your assignment I would like a report, no more then 1 page long, describing this question first from the perspective of it being a different disease, then from the perspective of it being the same disease. Please use statistical data from the question for both sides of the argument as well as give examples of how this could be the same disease. Sorry the instructions are vague, but the goal of this assignment is to get you thinking about all the different types information that epidemiologists need to examine when looking at disease outbreaks.
Question: An Epidemiologists is studying two populations that have recently had an outbreak of a disease with similar symptoms. In one population of 600 people 450 of them became infected and 3 of them died. In the other population of 200 people 20 were infected and 10 died. Did the two towns have an outbreak of the same disease? Defend your answer
