Disease Prevention Basics
You should do this before you eat.
What is wash your hands?
This vaccine is given in the fall and updated every year to match the virus that is circulating.
What are the flu and COVID vaccines?
This tiny arachnid can bite and spread diseases like Lyme and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.
What is a tick?
The long name for COVID-19.
What is C-O-R-O-N-A-V-I-R-U-S 1-9?
This is one of the only vaccines that prevents cancer.
What is the HPV or hepatitis B vaccine?
Gardasil (human papilloma virus)
You should do this when you cough or sneeze.
What is cover your mouth?
The MMR vaccine protects you against these three viruses.
What are measles, mumps, and rubella?
This disease is caused by varicella-zoster virus (VZV) - more commonly known by this spotty name.
What is chickenpox?
This is the only eradicated human disease.
What is S-M-A-L-L-P-O-X?
This deadly virus, which can be spread by mammalian bites, is (nearly) 100% fatal in humans.
What is rabies?
Your doctor may give you this if you have a bacterial infection.
What is an antibiotic?
This highly contagious disease causes coughing fits that can make it hard to breathe and is often called "whooping cough" or "100 day cough".
What is pertussis?
Bonus: There is a vaccine, Tdap, to help protect you from this pathogen.
In the southern US, some armadillos are naturally infected with this pathogen and can spread it to people if touched.
What is leprosy (Mycobacterium leprae)?
A bacterial sexually transmitted infection that can cause severe brain damage, blindness, and death if left untreated.
What is S-Y-P-H-I-L-I-S?
This federal government agency is responsible for licensing vaccines.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
This poke will help protect you from an infectious disease, like hepatitis A or measles, mumps, or the flu.
What is a vaccine?
These vaccines are recommended in Missouri before starting 8th grade.
What are Tdap, HPV, and meningococcal?
Mary Mallon (known as "Typhoid Mary") was an asymptomatic carrier of this bacteria which can cause severe diarrhea and a high fever.
What is Salmonella?
Bonus if Salmonella typhi!
This genus of bacteria is responsible for causing a GI illness OR the plague - depending on which species you are infected with.
What is Y-E-R-S-I-N-I-A?
These three advancements led to increased life expectancy and lower disease burden throughout the world.
What are vaccines, antibiotics, and sanitation and hygiene?
The study of how health and disease are spread and affect different groups of people, and what factors influence them.
What is epidemiology?
Vaccinating your pet with this vaccine can help protect them and you from this virus.
What is rabies?
This virus can live for up to two hours in an airspace after an infected person leaves the area.
What is the measles virus?
This is the disease the "D" in Tdap protects against.
What is D-I-P-H-T-H-E-R-I-A?
Reptiles and amphibians are more likely to carry this bacteria in their digestive tract, but it can cause an infection that results in diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting in humans.
What is salmonella?