BIOL 191 INTRODUCTORY MICROBIOLOGY: EPIDEMIOLOGY LAB

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BIOL 191 INTRODUCTORY MICROBIOLOGY EPIDEMIOLOGY
LAB
Outbreak! Students become epidemiologists and
recreate an actual outbreak.
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• ACTIVE LEARNING.
• Students are separated into distinct disciplines
  involved in the actual investigation.
• Who, When, Where, How, What, and Why?

LAB RATS
FIELD INVESTIGATORS
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Periodic Updates concerning the course of the
outbreakOffice of Medical Investigation

• Daily Folders
• Phone Calls to the Lab
• Deliveries to the Lab

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Daily Folders

• Medical Charts
• Lab Rats
• List of possible causes
• Field Investigators
• Climate and weather data

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Script  " This is ( ) from the Office of
Medical Investigation. I need to speak to a Lab
Rat. Do you have a pencil and paper?.  The
first set of antibody results from the victims
are in. First, plague negative Second,
influenza negative Third, Legionnaire's
Disease negative Forth, anthrax negative Toxin
s no traces of phosphene were found. The Office
will contact you with any further updates. Good
bye and good luck".
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Deliveries
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Antibody Test
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Chicago Science Explorers Program Janet
Beach-Davis Leslie Cleary Various HCC Mad
Scientist Volunteers (Allan Saaf)