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Where does the data come from? How do I use it?

Wristbands with unique ID numbers are distributed to each visitor inside the Hall of Human Life. These wristbands allow visitors to scan into each Link Station activity to anonymously log and compare their data with others. The data and graphs are accessible both in the exhibit and right here, online!

To view your data online, type in the eight digit number located directly below the barcode on your wristband. Have multiple IDs? Separate them by commas to view their data all at once! (example: 0000000, 1111111, 2222222)

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What behaviors help protect against a cold or flu?

This is one of fifteen interactive Link Station activities. Try it out in the Hall of Human Life, then view and compare your data here. Did you get the flu? In this activity, you will answer a few questions about whether or not you had flu like symptoms in the last two weeks. Your data will help researchers learn more about the rate of infection for the flu in the United States.

Overview

This overview shows how many Museum visitors had or did not have flu-like symptoms. Each dot represents a visitor. How did habits such as using hand sanitizer or getting the flu shot influence the spread of the flu? The graph shows the results of 150 Museum visitors.

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  • Age
  • Sanitizer
  • Flu shot

Spreading it around

Infections such as influenza (the flu) spread when droplets from a cough or sneeze move through the air and enter directly into another person’s mouth or nose, or land on surfaces that are later touched. The microbes in these droplets can live on surfaces for two hours and can spread from person to person. Infections in your body are caused by bacteria, viruses, and other microbes. When another organism feeds in or on you, multiplies, and adversely affects your health, you have an infection.

Reporting in

Preventing the spread of an infection like the flu depends on a number of factors, like getting vaccinated, washing your hands often, avoiding close social contact with sick people, and practicing good health habits. By reporting our behaviors when we are healthy or sick, we can learn how we play a role in how infections spread.

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