HIV, STIs, Infectious diseases

True or False

100

True or false: The flu can be contracted from eating contaminated food and being outside in bad weather. 

False -- it's transmitted through respiratory droplets. 

200

True or false: infectious diseases are the leading cause of death in the world.

True

300

True or false: bacterial infections can be cured

True

400

True or false: you can contract STIs from things like toilet seats and dirty towels

False, but with one exception: -- scabies, which you can contract from sharing heavily contaminated bedding, towels, and clothes.

500

True or false: viral infections can be cured

False -- they can only be managed and treated

Prevention and treatment

100

Tetracyclines, Penicillins, and Cephalosporins are examples of what kinds of medications?

Antibiotics

200

What is the best way to prevent the spread of disease?

Washing your hands

300

This is the preferred treatment for a severely damaged liver caused by Hep B and Hep C

Liver transplant

400

What kind of treatment works to cure Tuberculosis?

Antibiotics

500

This is a combination of body defenses made up of cells, tissues, and organs that fight off disease

The immune system 

Transmission

100

Athlete's foot and ringworm are caused by what kind of pathogen?

Fungus

200

Name 3 diseases you can contract from contact with animals. 

Rabies (bites from some mammals), plague (fleas), yellow fever (mosquitos), Lyme disease (ticks), sleeping sickness (Tsetse flies), Malaria (mosquitos), Salmonella (reptiles)

300

Name 3 ways to contract a communicable disease

1. physical contact with an infected person, such as through touch (staph), sexual intercourse (gonorrhea, HIV), fecal/oral transmission (hepatitis A), or droplets (influenza, TB)
2. contact with a contaminated surface or object (scabies), food (salmonella, E. coli), blood (HIV, hepatitis B), or water
3. bites from insects or animals capable of transmitting the disease (Malaria, bubonic plague, rabies)

400

This STI is called "silent" because many people have no symtoms

Chlamydia 

500

Name some ways that HIV/AIDS can be passed from person to person

Sharing needles, sexual contact, mother-to-child, organ transplant, bites

Misc.

100

This is a disease that interferes with the body's ability to fight off infection

AIDS

200

This STI can cause blindness, paralysis, dementia, and death

Syphilis 

300

What does HIV stand for?

Human Immunodeficiency Virus

400

What does AIDS stand for?

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

500

What does STI stand for?

Sexually Transmitted Infection

"Fun" facts

100

What animal caused the spread of the Bubonic plague in the 14th century?

Bonus: which animal wrongfully caught the blame?

Fleas

200

What bioterrorism agent was sent through the mail to federal agencies in Washington DC in 2001?

Anthrax

300

Some strains of this STI are direct causes of cervical cancer

HPV

400

28,000 people in the US died from this disease last winter

The flu

500

There are several hundred viruses that cause this disease

The common cold