Animal Alert!

In MedMyst: Animal Alert!, players learn about a mysterious disease that is affecting people in a distant tropical region. Players can choose to work as an epidemiologist, microbiologist, or veterinarian to determine what is making people sick. Animal Alert! can be played after Disease Defenders or independently of that mission.

While role-playing as an expert, players will learn how epidemiologists, microbiologists, and veterinarians work as a team to solve infectious disease outbreaks. Each expert path has its own learning objectives.

• Target Audience: Middle school
• Game Format: Three independent paths / Single Player
• Game Time Duration: Per path /
• Main Subjects Covered:
    epidemiology     microbiology
    veterinary medicine
• Key Topics Covered:
  case-control study   disease transmission cycles
  infectious disease careers  microarray
  nucleic-acid sequencing   quarantine
  science process skills   scientific method   viruses
• Gameplay Difficulty: Intermediate—players have some freedom
  in their decision to move around to different locations in the game,
  engage in activities, and collect tools, but specific instructions
  and restrictions keep them on the right path.