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Zombies and network models

In this lesson, students explore the use of network diagrams to represent connections, then apply a network-based COVID transmission simulation to hypothesise how a virus might spread through a small population.

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'Vaccination Day in Port Mackay!', 1877

This black-and-white pen-and-ink sketch depicts vaccinations against smallpox in Mackay, Queensland, in 1877. In the sketch the local public health officer, who appears to be shouting, wields a large knife and is about to vaccinate a fearful child on his lap. The child's mother holds the child's arm while it screams. A ...