Infection the Game, Board View We are pleased to introduce our most exciting educational initiative to date -- a board game called Infection - Animal Helpers© Version. Infection is a board game in which, "Players race around the board catching diseases and trying to be cured. Catch diseases left in public places, pass diseases to other players, get cured in the medical stations. Medicaid, Christmas bonuses, and the lottery help pay the bills. Diagnose your disease in the Info center, get it wrong and you catch the disease!Infection's disease cards provide a wealth of information; they are color coded to indicate the degree of seriousness, from basic diseases to major communicable diseases. Each card includes the common and Latin name, causes, symptoms, and treatments. Multiple medical libraries and medical professionals have been consulted to insure the accuracy of the information." (from www.earwig.net. The game is intended for kids from 9 to 90 (4th grade and older). Click here for more detailed information about the basic game.

In Infection - Animal Helpers© Version, "wild cards" have been added to the playing cards in the game.Most of the cards represent a different animal species along with the diseases that are helped with that animal's contribution to biomedical research. For instance, "Cats are the purrrfect" helpers with vision disorders. Cure both FAR SIGHTED and NEAR SIGHTED diseases with this card." A few of the cards represent "Animal Rights" cards. These cards penalize the player with either a lost turn, catching a disease, etc. For example, "The apes are going wild! An animal-rights activist sneaks into a research facility and lets all the monkeys out of their cages. Collect TWO RED diseases from any player(s)."

Infection -Animal Helpers© Version can be used during either unstructured times in your classroom, e.g., indoor recess, study halls, substitute teachers, latchkey, etc., or during actual classroom instruction periods in health or science. One science teacher plans to create an overhead of the board game and to form teams to play the game during the health component of his science class.

The game retails for $38.00 (includes S&H). To purchase Infection-Animal Helpers© ; Version, fill out and print the Order Form, and mail it, along with your payment, to Earwig Enterprises at the address provided on the Order Form.

We look forward to sending each one of you this exciting new game that will "accidentally" teach your students about diseases and the animal helpers assisting biomedical researchers.

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(Classroom teachers only in the State of Ohio.)

Olde Sawmill students learn about diseases via 'Infection'
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The Ohio Scientific Education & Research Association (OSERA) is a nonprofit 501(c) (3) coalition of institutional and corporate members dedicated to promoting public awareness of basic science, biomedical research and animals in research to elementary, middle-school and high-school students. These materials deliver messages to students that foster better understanding about the benefits humans and animals have gained as a result of "animal helpers" in biomedical research.