Activity 1

Direction: Complete the table on the next slide by supplying the required information.
• Scenario 1: Disease: Measles in 2025; Place: Dolphin Island; Population: 101,000;
Positive cases: 567; deaths connected to this disease: 35; total number of cases of the
same disease on the previous years:20.

• Scenario 2: Disease: Polio in 2030; Place: Utopia; Population: 200,000; positive cases: 5
(in different cities); deaths connected to this disease: 2; number of cases on the previous
year:2; total number of cases of the same disease on the previous years: 525.

• Scenario 3: Place: Disease: Bacterial food poisoning in 2022; MV Princess Marinella

Cruise ship; Population: 1000; Patients who had diarrhoea: 257; number of deaths due to
dehydration (effect of prolonged diarrhoea): 29; total number of cases of the same disease
before this event: 0.

*Disclaimer: The cases above are pure fiction.

Required Parameters Scenario 1 Scenario 2 Scenario 3

Classification of the Contagious Communicable Infectious Disease

disease according to Disease Disease
transmissibility

Classification of the Endemic Endemic Disease Sporadic Disease

disease according to Disease
occurrence
Incidence 567 5 257
Morbidity Rate (per 1000) 5.61 per 1000 0.025 per 1000 257 per 1000
Period Prevalence 0.0058 0.003 0.257
Mortality 35 2 29
Mortality Rate (per 1000) 0.35 per 1000 0.01 per 1000 29 per 1000
Case Fatality Rate 6.17% 40% 11.28%