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Infectious diseases and vaccination

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What role does vaccination have in preventing the spread of infectious disease?

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Infectious diseases and vaccination

Instructions

Follow the six-step simulation instructions when you begin.

Discussion questions

  1. What vaccination rate is required to keep the infection rate of Polio under 25%?

  2. What vaccination rate is required to keep the infection rate of Ebola under 25%?

  3. What vaccination rate is required to keep the infection rate of Measles under 25%?

  4. Did your answers to the above three questions vary from classmates, and if so why do you think that's the case?

  5. What would you want to build into the simulation that's not currently in it and why?

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Learning Objectives

Explain the role that vaccination can play in disease prevention.

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Concepts

  • Infectious disease

  • Vaccination

  • Herd immunity

  • Measles

  • Ebola

  • Polio

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