WATER, SANITATION, AND HYGIENE
Water and Sanitation
The ballad of the shellfish hawker Molly Malone is Dublin’s unofficial anthem. Join ‘Sweet Molly’ on a tour of Edwardian Dublin and discover how poverty, polluted water, and contaminated food spread typhoid.
Clean water and good sanitation led to significantly lower typhoid rates. Watch our animation and interactive timeline to see how enteric fever rates declined as a result of new sanitary infrastructure in Victorian Oxford.
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Food and Hygiene
Good hygiene and access to safe food are important ways of stopping the spread of typhoid. Watch our animations on the history of foodborne transmission in the US and Ireland to learn more.
One of the most well-known series of foodborne outbreaks of typhoid was traced back to Irish cook Mary Mallon (“Typhoid Mary”). As a ‘healthy carrier’ of typhoid, Mallon was famously quarantined against her will. Watch our animation to learn more about the risks of foodborne contamination and the ethical dilemmas of carrier control.
Stop The Transmission Games
MAD HATTER PIPE CHALLENGE
It’s tea time but something is wrong in The Mad Hatter’s kitchen! Can you help to fix the pipes underneath his house before his guests arrive?
(Credit: Concept & Script by Claas Kirchhelle & Samantha Vanderslott. Game Development by Discover eLearning. Design by Ben Leighton.)
Play the ‘Stop the Transmission’ Activity with students to learn about disease transmission.
(Credit: Design by Rosie Sharkey)
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Play the Immune System Memory Game
(Credit: Concept by Sean Elias,
developed by Discover eLearning)
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