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Case Files
Diseases sometimes spread in Whyville. Here are some Case Files from citizens who have caught recent illnesses. We have removed their names for privacy.

A

Case A is a female Whyvillian, age 12, who registered in January 2016. On Friday, April 22 she noticed something strange. She had a few grey scales on her face. The next day she had even more. She asked her friends and they told her it looked like Dragon Swooping Cough. "How do I make this go away?" she asked.

B

Case B is a male Whyvillian, age 16, who registered in February 2012. On April 23, he reported, "I saw someone in the Woods with scales on her. Is DSC coming back? I got it once before. Will I get it again? I guess I better start washing hands. I need one of those umbrellas. Where do I get one?"

C

Case C is a female Whyvillian, age 11, who has been registered since March 2013. She started sneezing on Sunday, Sept. 2nd. She tried to ask someone about them, but she was sneezing so much she could barely get the words out. She says she doesn't know Case A or Case B, but she was hanging out at the beach last week, and there were lots of people there. "Someone must've been sick at the beach! I'm going to stay away from crowded places from now on!" she said.

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Analyze the Disease Vector
The "vector" of a disease refers to the way in which it spreads. Some infectious diseases spread easily in the air. Some require close contact between a sick person and someone else. In Whyville, there are many ways one citizen can interact with another: by being in the same room, by chatting, whispering, Y-mailing, sneezing, throwing projectiles... The list goes on. By reading the Case Files carefully to see what people report, it may be possible to figure out how a particular strain of virus spreads.

Please read the Case Files and help us think about it! If you have ideas, please post here!

Are you sick with a Whyville virus?
Contribute your experience!

Please contribute a case file! Tell us when you started getting sick, what symptoms you have, and how you might have gotten sick. Have questions? Ask them in your case file so other Whyvillians or a Whyologist can try to help you.

Case files are very useful when you are trying to understand diseases. They help:

  • distinguish one disease from another
  • get an idea of what the symptoms are
  • figure out how long they last
  • determine how the disease might spread from one person to the next.

It's important that as many people as possible report their cases so we can get a complete picture of what's happening.

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