MR-81 Virus Observations

4/1/2016

After...

reviewing the MR-81 Virus Webpage carefully
trying out one of the Real World Resource Simulation options (Disease Lab, Gizmo Simulation OR Plague Inc App)

Make a post here about whether the MR-81 Virus was a very virulent (contagious) disease and why or why not. Then, tell which simulation you tried and what you observed about the diseases, transmission, etc.

18 Comments

Ethan Dunn

1/16/2017 09:51:12 am

The data indicated that the MR-81 virus was not highly contagious. This conclusion is affected through many variables. Region and transmission methods heavily influence. The region of virulent outbreak heavily impacts the outbreak itself. Unless the virus has the genetic mutation to survive cold weather, it's life outside of a host with be relatively short. The mode of transmission tremendously affects the virulent characteristic of the virus. Given the data, I would presume the virus was transmitted person to person, and once symptoms presented these people isolated themselves to prevent the spread of infection and to recover. I used the Plague Inc. app. Although I haven't used all possibilities, I found that bacteria and viruses are the most reliable in the spread of infection. I also found that airborne, transmission through water, insects, livestock, or rodents are extremely effective in propagating an infection.

Tyroan Rediske

4/5/2017 11:16:34 am

I think it was transferred from person to person, and wasnt actually that fast spreading. On plague inc, (which I use anyway!) bacteria spreads fastest, especially when it can transfer through different mediums.

Ree'Lynn Lisenby

4/5/2017 01:38:13 pm

It will most likely keep transmitting from person to person until there is a disturbance. If we are able to contain it the disease will stop and we could work on a cure for the infected.

Adison Reynolds

4/5/2017 05:57:31 pm

It will probably just keep spreading slowly until something stops it. Using the online simulator 1, I realized that the infected keep spreading because there is no one to cure it. Yet some people became immune. So, using that data, I can infer that the disease would eventually spread to everyone and, if it harmfully evolved, a good portion of us would likely become dead.

Shannon Yeskie

4/7/2017 08:35:33 am

The virus MR-81 is not very contagious based on the data from the graph, website, and simulation. The infection of the virus depends on your climate and region of the world you live in. The virus does not thrive in cold weather, and when infected passes like a storm and comes as quickly as it goes. The virus is most passed through infection and bacteria.

Alex Moseley

4/8/2017 09:28:07 am

The MR-81 virus wasn't very contagious, but rather spread slowly. The exposed and not infected group compared to the infected group grew at the same rate. I then tried the Disease Lab, and watched how quickly the disease spread. By day 12, the disease was spread to the most people and had 11 deaths. But by day 27, nearly everyone in the population was immune to the disease.

Dennis Taylor link

4/9/2017 12:39:03 pm

It will probably keep spreading until people start to get immune, the virus just dies, or we find a cure. But the spread rate depends on what climate you live in.

Madison Athey

4/9/2017 02:18:52 pm

The MR-81 virus spread very slowly. It made contact with a lot of people but not very many of the exposed people became infected. Because of this, it was not a very virulent disease. I tried the Disease Lab and during the simulation, the cold spread very quickly but not many people were affected. By day 18, 38 people were immune to the cold.

Lucas Kline link

4/9/2017 03:05:51 pm

Mr-81 it spread slow it didn't seem to be transmitted any other way that by food so it was probably bacterial and was ingested.

Ryder Giesler

4/12/2017 02:27:36 pm

The MR-81 virus is a contagious disease that is spreading day-by-day in Ms. Adam’s class via email and will eventually infect the entire class per the Gizmo Simulation as well as the pattern that the bar graph illustrates. It was amazing how quickly the foodborne illness spread throughout the controlled environment of a room! The individuals that did not contract the disease at first, but eventually or will, either were previously exposed to it or had received vaccinations. Prevention of this disease is important from early vaccinations to personal hygiene to taking care of one’s health and well-being.

Blaze

4/12/2017 07:05:17 pm

To me it appears that the virus spreads from person to person, and food. This seems like a bacterial infection that doesnt spread that easy. I would think containing and curing would be the best treatment for this infectious disease. Unless we become slowly immune to mr-81, some would die and the disease could possibly evolve to a deadly state.

Vitalia Strait

4/12/2017 08:44:37 pm

Mr-81 wasn't a a very virulent disease. While the amount did keep growing, it was very slowly. I tried the Gizmo Lab simulator and the food-borne disease was infecting many people quickly at first, but slowed to an almost no infection late. I think that if it was person-to-person it would have spread much faster, but foodborne depended on if the person ate the infected food or not.

Zack Zeigler

4/13/2017 09:25:25 pm

I don't think that the Mr-81 virus is very virulent. This is indicated by the charts showing the gradual infection of different people. Although Mr-81 isn't very virulent it would probably end up affecting everyone, the charts show the steady rise of people who were infected.

Trenity Griffin

4/14/2017 05:36:39 am

I think this disease was very smart because it was transmitted at least 5 ways but the most common was person to person an it attacked elderly, children, and people with immune deficiency so that it had a higher chance of survival rate.

Riley Vickaryous

4/18/2017 05:22:02 pm

I think maybe the virus itself was quite inadequate when it came to transmission. Even though people did get infected the spread was quite slow. I wonder if the virus would spread faster if it would evolve to a better more modern platform to spread through. Like maybe text or facebook. Also i wonder if this simulation would, if allowed to run for a longer time, have had a spike in infection as more and more people would have spread the virus.

Ethan Evans

4/19/2017 08:31:57 pm

Based on the data, MR-81 isn't very contagious. In the state of Alaska, unless this disease in very resilient to cold, it would have trouble living outside the host. I used the Plague inc. app. I learned that the most effective modes of transmission were person-to-person, such as air or water instead of just via livestock or birds.

Japheth McGhee

5/8/2017 11:55:04 am

The virus is effected by the region its in and the transmission style. Determining the type of outbreak. With this, the transmission would most likely be person to person.

Gracie Caston

6/16/2017 05:28:57 pm

Based of the data MR-81 was spread person to person, but was not spread very quickly. I did online Disease Lab, with impfluenza. With this disease a little over 150 people were contagious, but only26 out of 900 people died.

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