Monday, September 26, 2011

Disease Detective Interactive

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/disease-detective.html

Image from diseasetectives.org

19 comments:

Sinclaire said...

It's so cool that you can track a disease using process of elimination. But, this disease was fictional and you can't tell if this is the method you would actually use to track a disease. Overall, this was a really fun and interesting site. I loved that it was interactive!

Sofia said...

This site was very fun and interesting. I got to do the activity.

Sofia said...

Just like Sinclaire, it is very cool to track disease by doing this.

Emma said...

I liked this site. I like interactive things, and I thought that this site was very fun. I've always liked process of elimination. In real life though, it's probably a lot harder than they made it in this site.

Luca said...

This was an interesting post, I liked how it was a game instead of an article, but if there was an actual, say burping fever, where you can't stop burping, if it's contagious, the investigator would catch the "burping fever."

Caroline said...

I agree with emma that you might not be able to do this to this extent in reality, but it definitely is a good way of investigating. Also, there could have been multiple sources, but it only let you choose one. It was very interesting, and a good way to learn.

Anthony said...

This website offered a glance at how scientists track diseases. I enjoyed the interactive feature, and the interviews with the characters. Yet, still if it was a real flu or disease, like Swine Flu, for example, it would be much harder to track down the disease and where it came from. So, overall I really enjoyed the site, yet they should add a more realistic feel to it.

samar said...

There are many diseases on earth that is not even known or got the cure to.

samar said...

There are many diseases on earth that is not even known or got the cure to.

samar said...

I think that diseases are caused by unhigenic things.

Jason said...

I like this game a lot. It was fun and educational. It involves logic and science. It was a lot of fun. I wish they had found an actual disease that was sort of like this so that they could have fit it into the game. It wasn't hard, but it was still interesting. It was a really fun game.

Jordan said...

I loved this game not only because it was educational, but it was fun. It is amazing how if you use the process of elimination and investigate the sources, you can find out big cases like this! I think that we should have more article's like this.

Gwen said...

Wow! I can't beleive that disieses spread so quickly! when one person caught the disease, every one else caught it before the day was up!

amanda said...

I loved this site. It was very interesting to look at, and I thought that, like Sinclaire said, it's so cool to track diseases through process of elimination. Also, like Emma said, the process of elimination is much harder in real life.

Sergio said...

Great website though I didn't get the process of elimination to find out the cause. Many infections take time before you develop signs of being infected,

Joe said...

I liked the game, I thought it was fun, but I disagree with Jordan and Jason with the educational part, in the medical field. In real life, a doctor wouldn't be able to track the disease using just that, there would be research, and more interviews etc. I think this was fun and a good logic workout, however for medical education purposes it wasn't the most informative thing. Maybe a more long term activity would fit the bill better.

Nick said...

The activity was very fun and indulging. To get the right answer, you had to pay attention throughout the activity. Although it might not be the way scientists determine the source of the disease, it still felt like you were an epidemiologist trying to find a disease.

Aaron Willard said...

it is interesting that there is a fun thing that is educational. There are a lot of other things but not like this.

Chloe said...

This was an interesting detective like investigation. The process of elimination is really useful. This site was interactive and fun to play with. Like Sinclaire I am not sure if this is the correct way to track drown the source of the disease.