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<div><font size = 5>'''''7 Steps to the Truth: '''''</font></div> | <div><font size = 5>'''''7 Steps to the Truth: '''''</font></div> | ||
<div><big>'''Step #2: Verify Diagnosis.'''</big></div> | <div><big>'''Step #2: Verify Diagnosis.'''</big></div> | ||
+ | <div align='right'>[[ISSS608_2017-18_T1_Assign_WANG_RUI_Investigation step3|<big>'''Next to Step #3: Perform Descriptive Epidemiology'''</big>]]</div> | ||
− | Understanding the symptoms is very crucial to the following investigation works. According to the information on the letter, observed symptoms are largely flu-like. | + | [[File:wrletter.png|left|260px]] |
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− | + | <div>Understanding the symptoms and verifying the diagonsis is very crucial to the following investigation works. | |
+ | <br/>(a) to ensure that the disease has been properly identified, since control measures are often disease-specific; | ||
+ | <br/>(b) to rule out laboratory error as the basis for the increase in reported cases. | ||
+ | <br/>According to the information on the letter, observed symptoms are largely flu-like and include fever, chills, sweats, aches and pains, fatigue, coughing, breathing difficulty, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, and enlarged lymph nodes. More recently, there have been several deaths believed to be associated with the current outbreak. | ||
+ | <br/>In this section, I will validate this information using the microblog message collected. </div> | ||
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On May20, large crowd of people were observed at hospitals in different zones. To investigate what these people were talking about, I selected all messages posted near hospitals and label the senders according to their IDs. These IDs are identified as potential patients. | On May20, large crowd of people were observed at hospitals in different zones. To investigate what these people were talking about, I selected all messages posted near hospitals and label the senders according to their IDs. These IDs are identified as potential patients. | ||
− | [[File:wrpatient.png|center| | + | [[File:wrpatient.png|center|750px]] |
Then the message content is studied using text explorer. | Then the message content is studied using text explorer. | ||
− | [[File:wrpatient2.png|center| | + | [[File:wrpatient2.png|center|550px]] |
− | + | <div align='right'>[[ISSS608_2017-18_T1_Assign_WANG_RUI_Investigation step3|<big>'''Next to Step #3: Perform Descriptive Epidemiology'''</big>]]</div> | |
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− | <div>[[ISSS608_2017-18_T1_Assign_WANG_RUI_Investigation step3|<big>'''Next to Step #3: Perform Descriptive Epidemiology'''</big>]]</div> |
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(a) to ensure that the disease has been properly identified, since control measures are often disease-specific;
(b) to rule out laboratory error as the basis for the increase in reported cases.
According to the information on the letter, observed symptoms are largely flu-like and include fever, chills, sweats, aches and pains, fatigue, coughing, breathing difficulty, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, and enlarged lymph nodes. More recently, there have been several deaths believed to be associated with the current outbreak.
In this section, I will validate this information using the microblog message collected.
On May20, large crowd of people were observed at hospitals in different zones. To investigate what these people were talking about, I selected all messages posted near hospitals and label the senders according to their IDs. These IDs are identified as potential patients.
Then the message content is studied using text explorer.