The Battle Of Sickness

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Story: You were recruited as a hand-washing spy deployed to land where the germs live. Will you survive and find the secret?

Objective:  You need to steal the secret device from the germs to end the war!

Audience: This game is created for kids who usually don’t wash their hands.

Team Member: Allen

Health Lesson: A large percentage of food borne disease outbreaks are spread by contaminated hands. Appropriate hand washing practices can reduce the risk of food borne illness and other infections. The use of an alcohol gel hand sanitizer in the classroom provided an overall reduction in absenteeism due to infection by 19.8% among 16 elementary schools and 6,000 students.

• More than 50% of healthy persons have Staphylococcus aureus living in or on their nasal passages, throats, hair, or skin.
• Within the first 15 minutes of bathing, the average person sheds 6 x 106 colony forming units (CFU) of Staphylococcus aureus.
• The average individual swimmer contributes at least 0.14 grams of fecal material to the water, usually within the first 15 minutes of entering. Showering with soap before swimming helps stop the spread of germs by removing fecal material from the body.
• Trachoma, the leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide, is related to the lack of facial hygiene.
• Inadequate contact lens hygiene, such as failure to properly disinfect lenses, is associated with an increased risk of acquiring the eye infection Acanthamoeba keratitis .
• The spread of pinworms can be reduced by proper hygie ne, including clipping nails and showering children immediately after they wake in the morning.
• Hundreds of thousands of persons in the U.K. (between 1.2% and 1.3% of the total population) acquire outer ear infections each year, due to contaminated water remaining in the ear after swimming or bathing.
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