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MEDMYST 12 MISSION ONE: College
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Name______________________Class_________ Date
1. In the Body Defender challenge, what two body parts make up the first line of defense against
pathogens?
_______________________ and ______________________________
2. What is the name of the proteins made by B cells that can bind to a specific pathogen?
An___________________________________
3. In the Infect-O-Rama challenge, what are the ways in which viruses can be spread?
1. Hand—Direct Contact
4._____________________________
2. _________________________
5. _____________________________
3. _________________________
6. _____________________________
4. Which two of the above modes of transmission from above are used by most germs?
f__________________
and w_____________________
5. In the Koch’s Concepts challenge, why is it necessary to wash the orange before infecting it
with the fungus?
To remove _____________________________________________
6. Who worked out the four-step procedure scientists use to determine if a specific germ causes a
particular disease?
Dr. R__________________ K_____________________________
7. In the Germ Blaster challenge, which types of infectious agents can be killed by antibiotics?
B______________________, F____________________ and P___________________
8. Which pathogen has no treatment? (If you catch it—you die.)
P____________________________
9. In the Enemy Agents challenge, you meet up with six different infectious agents. Name them.
B______________________ P________________________
P________________
V______________________ F________________________
H________________
10. Which type of infectious agent are a tapeworm, a roundworm, and a hookworm?
H_________________________
MISSION TWO: Cholera
1. In the Arora II spacecraft, you learn of an outbreak of disease in Prokaryon. What type of
disease is it?
D_________________________________
2. Before arriving in Prokaryon, Eureka helps you review the Germ Theory first proposed by
Louis Pasteur. According to this theory, what are germs and what do they do?
Germs are___________________________________________________________
3. Eureka also shows you information on Joseph Lister, a surgeon who believed in the Germ
Theory and therefore insisted that doctors do what 2 things?
_______________________________ and ________________________________________
4. In reviewing the infectious agents, you learn there are six types. What are they.
B____________________
P________________________
P_____________________
V____________________ F________________________
H_____________________
5. In the animation of bacteria, you learn that they are categorized according to shape--rod,
sphere, or spiral. What are the three different shapes called?
B____________________ S________________________
C____________________
6. Upon arriving in Prokaryon, Sirius shows you a graph of diarrhea cases that indicates an
epidemic. What is an epidemic?
________________________________________________________________________
7. In the lab, Beta shows you what the wiggling menace looks like. What is the name of the
wiggling menace?
V___________________________ C___________________________
8. After looking at the fecal slides, Beta shows you an animation on cholera. Describe the type of
stool (poo) found in cases of cholera.
______________________________________________________________________________
9. In what body part does V. cholera colonize or grow?
______________________________________________________________________________
10. What is the treatment for cholera?
______________________________________________________________________________
11. What ends up being the source of contamination? The tomatoes or the lake water?
______________________________________________
12. At the end, Beta and Sirius say that the epidemic can be stopped if the refugees do what two
things?
____________________________________________ and ______________________________
Name _______________________________________
Period_____
Mission 3: Smallpox
. When Dr. Xu is talking to Beta and Delta, she tells them that she thinks that a patient has
smallpox. You then learn that smallpox is contagious. What does contagious mean?
__________________________________________________________________________
2. When searching the apartment with Delta, you find out that smallpox was eradicated in the
20th century, but that smallpox could be used a weapon for what kind of terrorism?
__________________________________________ ________________.
3. When searching the apartment with Delta, you find a Traveler’s Alert that tells you, that to
avoid getting monkeypox, you should limit your contact with what 2 animals?
4. ______________________________ and _________________________
In the lab you see an interactive model of a virus. What is the part of the virus called that
contains instructions to make other virus?
___________________________________________________
5. In the lab, you see an interactive movie on viral reproduction. The process by which the virus
obtains a new coating from the host cell’s membrane is it called replication, docking, or release?
_____________________________________________________
6. In the lab, you look at the viruses in Jeremy’s blisters with Beta. His blisters look similar to
those a person would get from what disease?
_________________.
7.When Alpha is in the lab he says that Dr. Xu has prevented anyone fromentering or leaving the
hospital. What is this called when doctors isolate a patient?
_____________________________________________
8. After the dissection of the robospider, information is released which tells you who created the
first vaccine. Who was it?
____________________________________________
9. In the information that is released from the robospider, you learn that a pathogen from mild
disease can protect someone against smallpox. What is the name of this mild disease?
_________________________________________________
10. After making the smallpox vaccine, you dip a special needle into the vaccine to vaccinate
someone. What is the name of this special needle?
__________________________________________________________________________
Mission 4: Malaria
1. In the game Vectorama, record one of the matches you make and list the disease the vector
transmits.
Disease ________________ transmitted by _________________________
2. How many people die each year from malaria?
_____________________________________
3. Who discovered that a mosquito carried a parasite that caused disease ?
______________________________________________________________
4. Is it the male of female mosquito that bites?
_____________________________________
5. In Plasmodia Invaders, the malaria parasite invades the liver and then destroys red blood cells. If
too many red blood cells are destroyed, the patient can get a condition called
______________ _______.
6. In Immune System Defenders, what are the special chemicals called that white blood cells make
that recognize and attack a specific pathogen?
_____ ___________________
7. “Phagocyte” means
________ ________
9. What do anti-malarial drugs do to fight the disease?
_______________________________________________________
10. What did Eureka do to the guards in order to escape?
______________________________________________________
Mission 5: Diseases from Animals
1. List the four "Category A" pathogens that are zoonotic (spread from animals to humans).
_____________
________________
__________________
___________________
2. What did the Japanese use to spread plague infected fleas over China before World War II?
_____________________________________________________________________________
3. From where did the terrorist get the anthrax bacteria?
PICK ONE career
MedMyst Reloaded Microbiologist
According to UtahFutures.org, how much does a biologist get paid in Utah? ________________
Disease Defenders
What is step 1 of formulating a hypothesis? ______________________________________
What is step 2 of formulating a hypothesis? ______________________________________
What is step 3 of formulating a hypothesis? ______________________________________
What independent variable is being tested? ______________________________________
What is the dependent variable?
______________________________________
Why do you have to put on PPE before filtering the rabies fluid? ____________________
Is the hypothesis supported or rejected
______________________________________
Animal Alert
What is encephalitis? _______________________________________________________
Patient samples were analyzed for what pathogens? ______________________________________
What type of pathogen is causing the encephalitis? ______________________________________
What specific pathogen does Dr. Adel Ratu think is causing the encephalitis? _________________
What is on a viral microarray? ______________________________________
The unknown viruses nucleic acid showed a ______% match to ____________________.
What technique is used to confirm the microarray results? ______________________________
What were the results of the sequencing? ______________________________________
Serology was used to search the patient’s blood samples for _______________ to Nipah virus.
What is the identity of the unknown virus? ______________________________________
What activity disrupted the fruit bats habitat that led to the outbreak? ______________________
MedMyst Reloaded Veterinarian
According to UtahFutures.org, how much does a veterinarian get paid in Utah? ________________
Disease Defenders
_____________________should always be worn in the necropsy suite.
What is the vet’s hypothesis? ______________________________________
Which brain tissue sample serves as the positive control sample? ________________________________
Which brain tissue sample serves as the negative control sample? ______________________________
Which two brain tissue samples look very similar under the microscope after staining? ______________
Was the vet’s hypothesis supported or rejected by the results? ________________________________
The brain tissue staining confirmed that ___________________________________________________
Animal Alert
What is encephalitis? ______________________________________
What is personal protective equipment? ______________________________________
What clinical signs do the sick pigs have? ______________________________________
What disease does the vet suspect the pigs have? ______________________________________
What is a quarantine? ______________________________________
What virus has infected the pigs? ______________________________________
What three things do pathogens cycle between in a disease transmission cycle?
____________________
_________________________ _______________________
A ______________ is where a pathogen normally lives. It is a constant source of a pathogen and is
required for a pathogen to survive.
What is a disease vehicle? _________________________________
______ are the reservoir, ______ are the vector, ______ are the vehicle, and ______ are the host in the
Yara virus transmission cycle.
What activity disrupted the fruit bats habitat and led to the outbreak? ___________________________
MedMyst Reloaded Epidemiologist
According to UtahFutures.org, how much does a medical scientist get paid in Utah? ________________
Disease Defenders
A scientist who specializes in tracking outbreaks of disease is in the field of ________?
What exposure and outcome are being investigated?
Exposure= ______________________________________
Outcome= ______________________________________
Who are the cases in the outbreak simulation? ______________________________________
Who are the controls in the outbreak simulation? ______________________________________
What animal is hypothesized to be the source of the rabies? ___________________________________
You analyze the results of the questionnaire by putting them into a ________.
The exposure odds ratio measures if there is an association between the ________ and the ________.
Animal Alert
What is encephalitis? ______________________________________
How do you determine if there is an outbreak occurring? ______________________________________
Who are the controls in the case-control study? ______________________________________
What pathogen is the cause of the encephalitis? ______________________________________
What do all the encephalitis cases in the North Village have in common? __________________
What is the source of Yara virus in the North, West, and East Village? _____________________
Who are affected with encephalitis in the South Village? _______________________________
What is the source of Yara virus in the South Village? __________________________________
What animal is the link between pigs, mangoes, and people? ___________________________
What activity disrupted the fruit bats habitat that led to the outbreak? ___________________
Name__________________________________
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1. What is DNA? ________________________________________________________________
2. Which part of a cell contains DNA? _________________________________________________
3. WHAT is CODIS? ________________________________________________________________
4. How many markers are in a DNA profile? ____________________________________________
5. What is toxicology? _____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
6. What is usually collected by a medical examiner and sent to a tox lab after a person dies?
_____________________________________________________________________________
7. Which test reveals if a drug like heroin is in a body? ________________________________
8. Toxicologist tend to have which personality types? ____________________ or ____________
9. What is Rigor Mortis? __________________________________________________________
10. What is Liver Mortis? ____________________________________________________________
11. What is Algor Mortis? ____________________________________________________________
12. What poison was in the dog food? _________________________________________________
13. Bonus: Solve case Two: Who killed poor Mr. Williams?
_________________________________________
14. Bonus: Solve Case Three: Who Killed Freebird?
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