Disease Detectives B/C

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Name some symptoms of lead poisoningand a possible source.
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Symptoms: Abdominal pain, Headache, Irritability, and maybe the gums turning blue? A cause typical to adults is drinking homemade alcoholic beverages that were made with a still that used parts of old car radiators. [size=5]In case you don't like that answer: You can get it from ingesting leaded paint.[/size]
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Things2do wrote:
Symptoms: Abdominal pain, Headache, Irritability, and maybe the gums turning blue? A cause typical to adults is drinking homemade alcoholic beverages that were made with a still that used parts of old car radiators. [size=5]In case you don't like that answer: You can get it from ingesting leaded paint.[/size]
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Okay, no one's asked for a while so: what is age adjustment and why is it done?
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UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F wrote:Okay, no one's asked for a while so: what is age adjustment and why is it done?
Age adjustment is a technique used to compare two groups with different age distributions. (?)
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Froggie wrote:
UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F wrote:Okay, no one's asked for a while so: what is age adjustment and why is it done?
Age adjustment is a technique used to compare two groups with different age distributions. (?)
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Sorry I forgot about this..
Some vocab questions (just define the word):
Active immunity
Confirmed cases
Probable cases
Possible cases
Hawthorne bias
Pathogenicity (of an agent)
Epi-curve
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