Outbreak!
In the imaginary town of Chortlington-on-Sea, a man falls ill. Read through our epidemic scenario, and decide for yourself what you would do if you were a public health official or the editor of a local newspaper…
A patient is admitted to Chortlington District Hospital with high fever and strange red marks on his face. Doctors have seen nothing like it before and order some blood tests.
After a few days, the tests return from the hospital labs but have failed to identify an infectious organism. Meanwhile, five more patients are admitted with similar symptoms. All are put into isolation as a precaution. As a cluster of cases has appeared, the hospital alerts the Health Protection Agency (HPA).