The year is 2050 AD. You're a young medical
professional on a new job in an urban hospital.You're walking down a crowded hospital hallway, doctors, gurneys, technicians, and patients whizzing by. A series of patients come in with bizarre, yet strikingly similar symptoms. Alarm spreads through the city as more people get infected and news of first deaths leaks to the local press. Time is ticking as you begin your investigation to identify, cure and eventually prevent the disease from spreading. The stakes are high, and risk of infection is a constant. You must use all available expertise and medical tools to find out who is sick, how they got infected and what can be done to contain the impending epidemic.

Your ability to progress through this case will not only save lives but will also help your personal career progression. If you can crack this you will be one step closer to becoming a widely and publicly acclaimed epidemiologist. First you deal with more local cases, hone your medical and immunology skills and prepare for the portents of some horrible disease that may lie beyond…

Through your journey as an epidemiologist, you will travel to crowded urban hospitals, dangerous sites of bioterrorism, and exotic jungle locations. Can you use your physiological knowledge and investigative skills to save your patients' lives?

Copyright 2002, MIT.