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Infectious Disease in Your Community…… LAKE CHARLES LOUISIANA (CITY AND State). PUBLIC HEALTH WEBSITE MAY BE LOUISIANA DEPT OF HEALTH Use 2 references no OLDER THAN 10 years. APA FORMAT CITATION Instructions This is a Q-and-A report on a recent outbreak of infectious and/or communicable disease in your community. Use your state and/or local public health websites to research this report. You’ll need to find the reportable disease list for your state. Be sure to include the name of the state public health system in the report. Include the name of the state public health system and cite the source(s) of your information. Answers on the report will be brief and written from a first-person or third-person perspective due to the reflective nature of the writing prompt. Therefore, students may use the words I, me, or my in this report if desired. Questions: Answer the following questions about this outbreak: 1. What is the name of the causative agent? 2. Describe its effects on the body. 3. What is the incubation period? 4. What are the signs and symptoms? (List them.) 5. Is it communicable/contagious person-to-person? If so, how is it transmitted? 6. What is the treatment? 7. Is it a “reportable disease?” If it is a reportable disease, discuss which class it’s found in on the reportable list and the reporting requirements. 8. What was done during the outbreak to contain it? 9. What is planned as far as preventing an occurrence?