Case Study
In 2016, Public Health England (PHE) investigated a national outbreak of a rare strain of E. coli O157 that was identified by PHE’s whole genome sequencing technology. There had been …
Course: e-Bug Health Educator Training
Food Bug Activities
e-Bug was developed for use in schools pre-COVID-19 and so some activities may require modification based on your school’s distancing guidelines. Please use your judgement and tell us how you …
Background: How to prevent foodborne illness and food spoilage
Links to activities: spot the mistake discussion sheet, food sort, and how clean is your kitchen. Food spoilage is the deterioration of the colour, texture and flavour of food. It …
Background: foodborne microbes
Links to activities: spot the mistake discussion sheet, food sort, and how clean is your kitchen. In week one we discussed that there are both useful and harmful microbes present …
Foodborne illness (Food poisoning)
Links to activities: spot the mistake discussion sheet, food sort, and how clean is your kitchen. Foodborne illnesses are “illnesses usually infectious or toxic in nature and caused by bacteria, …
Summary of week 1
Thank you for completing week one of the e-Bug Health Educator Training course, we hope you have enjoyed it so far! This week we covered an introduction to microbes, including …
Background: Respiratory hygiene
Links to activities: respiratory hygiene and horrid hands. It is important that good respiratory hygiene is taught from a young age, and that key messages are built on over time. …
Hand hygiene
Links to activities: respiratory hygiene, horrid hands, and soap, water, and pepper experiment. Hand hygiene is possibly the single most effective way of reducing and preventing the spread of infection …
Background: Microbe transmission and the importance of good hygiene at the right moment
Links to activities: respiratory hygiene, horrid hands, and soap, water, and pepper experiment. Hygiene is a group of activities we do to prevent the spread of harmful microbes. By knowing …
Background: The spread of infection through our hands and sneezes
Links to activities: respiratory hygiene, horrid hands, and soap, water, and pepper experiment. We learned earlier about bacteria, viruses and fungi: three different types of microbes that can cause infection. …
Meet the Bugs activities
e-Bug was developed for use in schools pre-COVID-19 and so some activities may require modification based on your school’s distancing guidelines. Please use your judgement and tell us how you …
Background: Where are microbes found?
Links to activities: make your own microbes, horrid hands, soap, water, and pepper experiment. This is an additional video, hosted on YouTube. The above video is from BBC News. A …
Background: What are microbes?
Links to activities: make your own microbes, yeast races, and respiratory hygiene. Microbes Microbes, also known as microorganisms, germs, or bugs, are tiny living organisms too small to be seen …