People
This person discovered the first antibiotic
Who is Alexander Fleming?
The number of dengue serotypes
What is four?
This is a term to describe the killing of infectious agents by heat which is commonly performed on milk
What is pasteurization?
The Linnanean name for the pathogen that caused a large outbreak in Europe in the 14th century is Yesrinia pestis. This is its common name
What is the Black plague?
This person founded LSHTM in 1899 and has a lecture hall named after him
Who is Patrick Manson?
This person identified the bacteria that causes anthrax, tuberculosis, and cholera and also has a public health agency named after them
Who is Robert Koch?
The name of the common cold virus
What is rhinovirus?
This 20-second activity is considered the single most effective way to prevent the spread of infectious diseases
What is hand washing/hand hygiene?
This was the year that smallpox was declared eradicated by the World Health Assembly
When is 1980?
These are the three countries that LSHTM has campuses in
What is the United Kingdom, the Gambia, and Uganda?
This person invented the small pox vaccine.
Who is Edward Jenner?
This acid-fast bacillus remains dormant in about one quarter of the world’s population and is the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent
What is tuberculosis?
This element is put into salt to prevent the development of enlarged thyroid glands
What is iodine?
This is the name of the street on which John Snow removed the pumphandle to prevent cholera transmission in 1854 in London
What is Broad Street?
This pioneer of public health named on the Keppel Street building shares his name with the popular brand of crisp
Who is Sir John Pringle?
This person invented the first polio vaccine
Who is Jonas Salk?/ Who is Albert Sabin (first oral polio vaccine)?
The name of the pathogen in the last of us
What is cordyceps?
This country first introduced a national lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic
What is Italy?
This strain (HXNX) of flu, which caused a global pandemic in 2009 and is sometimes referred to as swine flu, still circulates today
What is H1N1?
This head of the British monarchy gave LSHTM a Royal Charter to expand in 1924
Who is George V?
This person/people are widely considered to have developed the SIR model. Name at least one of them
Who is William Kermack/Anderson McKendrick/ Ronald Ross/Hilda Hudson?
The name of the parasite that causes sleeping sickness
What is African trypanosomiasis?
This was the first human virus to be sequenced
What is Epstein-Barr virus?
Prior to the 2022 mpox outbreak, the most common route of transmission for mpox was from this type of animal
What are rodents (rats, squirrels, mice, etc)?
This philanthropic organization donated two million pounds to expand LSHTM in 1924
What is the Rockefeller Foundation?