Abstract: Salmonella Food Poisoning after a Community Banquet

Learning objectives

To provide the student with practice in:

• Analysing reported information about an epidemic of salmonellosis in a small community.
• Identifying objectives in investigation of epidemics of food-borne illness.
• Designing a field environmental epidemiological investigation.
• Defining and calculating incubation period, attack rate, food specific risks, relative risks and confidence intervals.
• Interpreting statistical analysis of data using relative risk and confidence intervals.
• Identifying common problems in food preparation that contribute to epidemics of salmonellosis.
• Planning strategies for prevention of food-related epidemics and community education about environmental health issues.