Swine flu sneeze game

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Great game for kids, (or anyone) to discover just how many people can be infected with one sneeze. :eek:

http://www.friv.com/x/sneeze/game.html

Specializes in med/surg, psych, public health.
that is a disgusting idea that contains erroneous information and could mean that children will sneeze more,?! telling people about the "game" and possibly infect others! kids are just going to have to see drawings of modes of transmission of communicable diseases, and believe them. it's definitely not cool to make others sick, even in the interest of education or guise of entertainment!!!! :down:

i respectfully deflect to your hypothesis and will email the gaming site to suggest a black box warning be added that says -

warning: children, please do not sneeze more as this could cause the aporkalypse!

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I truly can understand both sides of this debate on the game but I have to say....MizFradd your last post made me laugh so hard I almost peed my pants!! :)

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I always thought the "aPORKalypse" would be caused by McRibs....

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UpDate Sneeze game level 10 at 70 per cent. I have found if you get the old folks ...they sneeze farther than the others. They can take out 5-8 people at a time. LOLOL Good luck.

TuTonka :)

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Level ten update: 72 percent today. Thats all I could get on this one today.

TuTonka

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Specializes in paediatric and trauma.

this game is well good

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Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.

I love the game -- and games are a great way to teach both adults and children. I don't see this game as any more likely to cause a child to purposefully sneeze on other people any more than telling them not to do that. If you simply tell them not to do it, they still might decide to give their disease to some other child as a joke. That can happen even without the game.

But I do have a "content" question. Isn't it now thought that people over age 55 might have some immunity due to their exposure to a related strain in an outbreak in the 1950's? Isn't it true that the people most likely to get serious illness and die are actually under the age of 55?

If that's the case, this game might not be the best game for the Swine Flu -- and be more appropriate for other types of flu. For swine flu, it might be better to have all adults be worth the same number of points.

But I am not 100% sure of that. Can anybody add to that?

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