Monday, February the 13th at 1:10 pm, a GP in Marion Medical Centre diagnosed a life-threatening disease from a sick patient. This patient is the first recorded carrier of an unknown disease, making the him/her patient zero. The symptoms recorded by the GP includes: severe headache, fever, fatigue, nausea, sensitivity to light, confusion, irritability, coughing, sneezing, blocked sinuses and neck stiffness. The GP notifies SA health of this life-threatening disease. Patient zero was sent to hospital for medical attention and treatment.
Using the symptoms recorded by the GP, the disease was diagnosed and was identified to be meningococcal b. Meningococcal b is caused by a bacterium, meaning that it can be treated with certain antibiotics. A range of diseases causing the same symptoms as patients zero was processed and listed. Process of elimination was used to narrow down the list to one disease. The process of elimination took into account pathogen type, …show more content…
The collection of information was done per city and starting from the 20th of February till the 19th of March.
In this report the data sets on the disease outbreak identified as (name of disease) will be analysed using a range of statistics. Statistics that will be used in this report include 5 number summaries, normal distribution, measure of centre, measure of spread, box plot, pie chart, column graph and scatter plot.
Results of these statistics will be used to make recommendations to control and stop the disease as well as conforming unknown territory of the disease. In this report questions that will be answer include the following:
- Does the body temperature indicate if a patient is infected or not infected?
- What areas of South Australia is most affected by this disease?
- What ages ranges (intervals of 10) are main targets of this
Using the symptoms recorded by the GP, the disease was diagnosed and was identified to be meningococcal b. Meningococcal b is caused by a bacterium, meaning that it can be treated with certain antibiotics. A range of diseases causing the same symptoms as patients zero was processed and listed. Process of elimination was used to narrow down the list to one disease. The process of elimination took into account pathogen type, …show more content…
The collection of information was done per city and starting from the 20th of February till the 19th of March.
In this report the data sets on the disease outbreak identified as (name of disease) will be analysed using a range of statistics. Statistics that will be used in this report include 5 number summaries, normal distribution, measure of centre, measure of spread, box plot, pie chart, column graph and scatter plot.
Results of these statistics will be used to make recommendations to control and stop the disease as well as conforming unknown territory of the disease. In this report questions that will be answer include the following:
- Does the body temperature indicate if a patient is infected or not infected?
- What areas of South Australia is most affected by this disease?
- What ages ranges (intervals of 10) are main targets of this