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Assignment Problem:

- You are co-located in your employment with the 911 dispatch center.

- Starting July 4th, you note that the dispatch center seems to be increasingly busy with complaints of fever, headache, and cough.

- About July 8th, the hospitals in an area of town that boasts an amusement park and picnic grove are on “divert” to EMS, as the activate their “surge” program internally.

- An increase in requests for EMS from primary care providers is noted. Chest pain, cough, and hypoxemia are prevalent. Ventilators are in demand.

- The Department of Health has begun their investigation, and has requested CDC Epidemiological Intelligence Service Teams assistance, as several counties are now reporting similar “syndromes”

Common Source:

- A large number of primary cases appear to have visited the amusement park during the hot summer days around July 4.

- Most have acknowledged using the cooling sprinkler during those visits.

- The nursing home in the same water district has experienced an increased hospital admission rate and moderate increased death rate

- Children and infirm residents in the same area are also common hospitalized patient

Questions to answer:

Question 1: What “type’ of Hazardous Material/WMD agent might this scenario represent?

Question 2: Epidemiological surveillance has identified a common “vector”. What might that be?

Question 3: What agent might be implicated based on the clinical picture?

Question 4: How could this syndrome be altered?