This report outlines the computer program written to solve the problem of the downwind transport of an airborne smallpox virus and the outbreak of the virus onto an imaginary city. The outbreak is due to the explosion of a chemical weapon.

Smallpox is a deadly weapon to society. At this point, the World Health Organization (WHO) is trying to destroy the last stocks of the virus. The WHO thinks it would be best to destroy it so it does not cause a threat to world health¹. There is no vaccine at this time. If it were released into the world, more people will die today.

A model of a small city that is being infected is representing this problem. Releasing the virus into this city will then show the fatality result. The computer program has a loop that can be set for each year. Each year the numbers of people that are infected are lower, but the death is still a significant number.

2. Computer Program

The program is written in C++. This programming language will perform the required program operation because it allows the use of cout and cin lines. The cout outputs data and the cin inputs data. Also, because the program allows the use of a loop. The loop allows the data to run through the program any number of times. The loop is important because it shows the data for each year. The loop can be changed to determine the end result after a certain number of years. (Appendix 2)

The individual team members developed this program. The data is examined to evaluate how the infected group(s) and susceptible group(s) are put together. The infected group(s) are the people who get smallpox from the airborne virus transported downwind and the susceptible groups(s) are all the people who are unable to get it. After establishing the people into infected and susceptible group(s), the formula is created to output the number of infected people and the percentage of the people who will get the virus. A simple formula is used to represent the new population. (Appendix 1, 2)