How Viruses Travel Lab
| Using a safe, simulated disease agent, students model the
transmission of a communicable viral disease, identify its origin
and calculate its rate of spread through the population. The class
forms inferences on the rate a disease spreads today as compared to
a similar outbreak a century ago. |
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| Your students will: |
- Understand how certain viruses travel through a population
- Simulate the transmission of a communicable disease
- Identify the index case, or originally infected person, in
the simulated transmission process
- Calculate the percent of infection after the simulated
transmission process
- Calculate the rate at which the infection spreads
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