Operation Outbreak simulation teaches students how pandemics spread

(Cell Press) In 2015, a team of specialists in modeling disease outbreaks got together with educators to create Operation Outbreak, an educational platform and simulation intended to teach high school and college students the fundamentals of responses to pandemics. The program, which is open source and freely available, includes a Bluetooth-based app that carries out contact tracing by recording transmission events between phones. The details are highlighted in a Commentary published in the journal Cell.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news