You are a budding epidemiologist who has been called to a
popular national park in the American Southwest to investigate
a disease outbreak. Six out of eight people camping in the
same area have fallen ill with a serious ailment of unknown
origin. Local and state public health officials want you to
trace the outbreak to its source so their agencies can
implement control measures. In this interactive, use the basic
methods of field epidemiology to solve this medical mystery.
To launch the
interactive, click on
the image at left.—Lexi Krock
