Infectious Disease

"Symptom Scenes is an arcade game featuring a cast of cute characters suffering from Meningitis or Septicaemia. It's a race against time to recognize the symptoms and save as many as you can!

"The Mosquito and Parasite educational games and related reading, are based on the 1902 and 1907 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

"Go through ten interactive stops and find out how our immune system protects us and sometimes could harm us."

"In this game, you are a trainee soldier of the Immune System Defense Forces, defending a human against bacterial infection. You have two missions to complete.

“In an effort to further raise awareness, Dutch researchers have created a game that challenges players to control a new pandemic.

“This game teaches you about malaria and how to reduce the risk of contracting it when traveling abroad.” The player has the option to take a pre-knowledge quiz. The job of the player is “to advise travel abroad students about disease prevention and help them to return home safely.” During the game, the player can consult health care specialists.

This free, downloadable game teaches about the immune system and is targeted to high school and college students.

In the free, online game Killer Flu, players are taught about seasonal and pandemic flu and how those differ from the influenza virus.

This educational game by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is designed to teach children about different types of diseases and infections. Players work as detectives who review case files containing information about an illness such as its weaknesses, powers, and ways to defend against it. This free, online game also focuses on the immune system and how it protects the body from unwanted intruders that can threaten health.

Healthy Children, Healthy Homes is a malaria prevention game developed for children living in South Africa where the disease is quite prevalent. The game is designed to educate players about ways to protect themselves against malaria by presenting them with questions regarding malaria prevention. To win, players must answer the questions correctly. This game is not currently available.