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Test Tools New Infectious Disease Game
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Interested in learning infectious disease through a card game?
Epipocalypse :
Bug Detectives is designed to teach the basic clinical presentation, geographic distribution, vectors, reservoirs, and more of 100+ infectious diseases worldwide. Players take turns matching infections to researchers in various combinations to maximize points. The game is still in development, but a Kickstarter to determine interest and hopefully print a professional-quality version is coming mid-2025.
Link for the free print n' play files:
Epipocalypse Download (requests an email)
Link to try online for free:
Epipocalypse | LabBeagleGames | Screentop.gg
Link to the future Kickstarter:
Epipocalypse: Bugs Detectives Kickstarter
Attached below are some samples cards. Feel free to ask any questions. All input appreciated.
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Lab Beagle Games .
Last edited: Feb 24, 2025
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Going to start sharing draft Infection Cards for the upcoming Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives Kickstarter. First, Lyme!
Feedback and suggestions welcome.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Filariasis!
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: American Trympanosomiasis (AKA "Chagas")!
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Chikungunya!
Any feedback or suggestions?
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Zika!
Any feedback or suggestions?
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Ross River Fever!
Any feedback or suggestions?
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: STARI! The Lyme look-alike we haven't quite identified yet.
Feedback or suggestions?
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever! Fun to say, not fun to have.
Also, one of the unusual vectorborne infections where the vectors are themselves also the reservoirs.
Any feedback or suggestions?
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Lyme Arthritis!
Any feedback or suggestions?
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Lyme Carditis!
When it comes to heart infections we typically think (A) endocarditis or (B) myocarditis. Time for something completely different.
Any feedback or suggestions?
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Bartonella quintana Endocarditis!
Previously thought to be fading in incidence, unfortunately resurgent with the increase in homelessness.
Any feedback or suggestions?
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Plague!
Buboes!
Any feedback or suggestions?
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Scrub Typhus!
One of three typhuses! (Typhi?) Stay tuned!
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Epidemic Typhus!
Typhus two! The "louse-borne" one.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Endemic Typhus!
Typhus three! The "flea-borne" one.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Cutaneous Leish!
How does one pronounce Leishmania anyway?
Any feedback or suggestions?
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Hepatitis A!
The original acute hepatitis.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Salmonella!
Lots of ways to get it. Tiny turtles probably the cutest.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Campylobacter!
The GI bug that can make your immune system go wacky.
Any feedback or suggestions?
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Listeria!
A psychrophile!
Any feedback or suggestions?
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Taenia!
The tapeworm in your poop. (Before it gets in your brain.)
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Schistosoma!
The fluke that can go just about anywhere.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Schisto again!
Now it's in the GI tract. Misbehaving.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Leprosy!
Chronic rash + loss of sensation should raise 🚨
Any feedback or suggestions?
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Back to the schistosomes!
Different species are associated with different end organ disease manifestations.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Mycobacterium marinum!
The seafarers mycobacterium.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Cryptosporidium!
Beware splash pads!
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Giardia!
Everyone's favorite chronic diarrhea. Right?
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: the Vibrios!
Hard to say if septicemia is a distinct enough disease process versus the diarrhea + sepsis from ingestion or SSTI + sepsis from cutaneous inoculation...
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: the Vibrios!
Take home point: eating raw oysters is always a 🎲.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: the Vibrios!
The last non-cholera Vibrio card. Be careful wading in certain bodies of salt water with open wounds. Vibrio and the whole shark thing.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: the REAL Vibrio. Cholera!
This card actually needs to be updated, don't forget the oysters!
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Entamoeba!
It starts with gastroenteritis and ends with a liver abscess. Sometimes.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Entamoeba again!
Sometimes causes dysentery a la The Oregon Trail.
Any feedback or suggestions?
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Aeromonas!
Cellulitis + fresh water trauma = Aeromonas. At least on the pop quizzes.
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Next draft Infection Cards for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Onchocerciasis!
Spread by flies, causes a variety of skin disease & blindness. Almost eradicated in the Americas by public health efforts.
www.cartercenter.org
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: TB Time!
I suppose I should change it to Mycobacterium tuberculosis *complex* given it's more than one species...
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: TB Time!
AKA Pott's disease. Cold abscesses are kind of a mycobacterial thing in general. And fungal.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: TB Time!
Peritoneal studding is also often seen intra-op.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: TB Time!
TB pericarditis is one of the few TB instances where steroids in addition to RIPE can be helpful.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: TB Time! Can't stop, won't stop.
TB lymphadenitis is the most common site of dissemination.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: TB Time! Ok stopping. Last TB card.
TB meningitis. Another TB presentation that may benefit from prophylactic steroids.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Measles!
Unfortunately this is a thing again. Remember the 3 C's and to keep it in your differential!
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Rubella!
Waiting for its chance to make a comeback? One of those other vaccine preventable viruses. Can also infect unborn children.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Mono!
Some cases may be subclinical. The great majority of people are seropositive by adulthood.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: RSV!
Moms can protect their babies while pregnant through vaccination and for those that miss it, babies can be protected through antibodies.
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Coronaviruses! All of them (that infect humans)!
Don't forget the MERS! 🇸🇦
Any feedback or suggestions?
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Next draft Infection Card for Epipocalypse: Bug Detectives: Ascaris!
A helminthic infection that's usually asymptomatic except in high burden cases.
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Next draft Infection Card: Trichinella!
Can infect a lot of mammalian wildlife, but 🐻 are the ones that seem to most commonly make the news.
Any feedback or suggestions?
