Good-bye to Dengue

Good-bye to Dengue is an educational board game designed by health specialist Dr. Jeffrey Lennon, currently at Foundation University, Dumaguete City in the Philippines. The game is intended to instruct children on the environmental conditions and health practices conducive to the spread and prevention of dengue hemorrhagic fever.

Good-bye to Dengue combines traditional roll-and-move mechanics with question answering in the style of Trivial Pursuit. Board spaces represent practices (e.g., covering water containers), symptoms (e.g., a rash), and stages of the mosquito life cycle (egg, larva, pupa, adult). Players gain extra turns for answering questions correctly (for example, "are the mosquitoes that transmit dengue and malaria the same?"

Good-bye to Dengue originally appeared in an unpublished 1996 manuscript written by Lennon and titled, "Health education and control of dengue hemorrhagic fever for schools and communities." The game was later reprinted as appendices K through N of Lennon's 2001 doctoral dissertation (Univ. Alabama at Birmingham) titled The Utility of a Board Game for Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Health Education. The dissertation is available through UMI Microform (number 3040921).