Public health oriented board game system

A public health oriented board game system for educating people and promoting awareness as to the nature of infectious diseases, traumatic injuries, chemical threats, and public health issues comprising, in combination:

• a square game board, positionable upon a horizontal surface with markings on the upper exposed surface, the game board having fifty-two equally sized squares around the entire periphery to define a path of travel for each player, including one square labeled “START” with arrow pointing in a counterclockwise direction, one square labeled “FINISH,” one square labeled “Take a Shortcut” that leads a player to a shortcut over “The Bridge Over Troubled Water,” thereby shortening a player's path of travel from one side to an adjacent side and with one square labeled “Anti-Hazard” card, one square with an arrow leading to a “Dead End, Ebola” Hazard Trap, seven “Caution” squares, and six squares labeled “Trapped” with arrows leading a player into one of the Hazard Traps, including “The Hen House,” “The Rat Trap,” “The Forest Carnivores,” “Sea Treasure,” “The Insectory,” and “Bioterrorism”, each of the “Hazard Traps” lengthening a player's path of travel along a single side;
• six player tokens, called “Vectors” representing each player's position and path of travel around the game board, including a turtle, pig, fish, dog, fly, and cow;
• six hundred playing cards, each card having questions related to infectious diseases, traumatic injuries, chemical threats, and public health issues, and a plurality of potential answers, one of which is correct, the playing cards adapted to be selected randomly by the players whereby a player answers a question correctly to move the player's Vector accordingly in an effort to move the Vector all around the game board;
• six “Anti-Hazard” cards, each card awarded to a player who lands on the game board square labeled “Anti-Hazard” card, and can be used by a player upon landing on one of the plurality of squares leading into a Hazard Trap to avoid getting pulled into said Hazard Trap;
• two six-sided dice, including a first die with two spots on three sides, three spots on two sides, and four spots on one side, controlling the number of squares which can be advanced by a player when a player answers a question correctly, the second die having drawings of health treatment, prevention, antidote or anti-hazard related objects, including a can of insecticide or bug spray with a dead bug, a frying pan with a hard-cooked egg, a syringe with needle, a gas mask, a chlorine bleach jug, and raw fish over an open flame, controlling whether a player escapes from a plurality of Hazard Traps;
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• an Information Booklet having board game rules and instructions, background information on infectious diseases, traumatic injuries, chemical threats, and public health issues, and references for each individual question on a playing card.