Janet CollinsA Swine Flu Video Game
June 23rd 2009 09:21
If you would like to see how much damage one of your sneezes can do, I’ve found a video game for you. It’s called Stop Swine Flu, although its original name Sneeze seems far more appropriate.
The video game was created as an education video to teach children about where they sneeze and the effect it can have on those around them. Now that Swine Flu is all around us, the video game has been renamed and released last month as Stop Swine Flu.
The game is aimed at teens and was commissioned by the second largest charity, The Wellcome Trust, to educate children and teens on the effects of sneezing and public health. The game actually challenges players to infect as many people as they can with one sneeze.
Complete with green mucus graphics and coughs, sneezes and blowing noses in the background, the game has several levels, the first being the street level where you, as a pedestrian, aim to infect as many as possible in order to go to the next level. You are only allowed one sneeze per level and this is the challenge.
There is another strange thing about this game. The age of your victims can alter your score. Infecting a child is 5 points whereas if you infect an elderly person you get 15!
The levels others than the street include a nursery school, a factory floor and a train station.
Check it out here:
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How many are infected determines whether you go to the next level, which could be a train station, a factory floor or a nursery school. Infecting a child is 5 points, an elderly person is 15.
You have only one sneeze. Use it wisely.
Image credit: www.guardian.co.uk.
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Comment by Morgan Bell
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it is extremely contagious and with how quickly it has whipped across the globe we can see how inadequate our quarantine procedures are . . . the only saving grace is that (so far) it is not too deadly, lets hope it doesnt mutate to become more resilient
sorry to go all serious on your light-hearted post
Comment by Janet Collins
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Anything infectious always gets people worried, The video I think showed just how much one sneeze can spread and spread - in fun maybe but really true.
Thank you.