Viral Hepatitis
This type of hepatitis is often spread through contaminated food or water and usually resolves without chronic infection.
What is Hepatitis A?
This bacterial STI is often associated with a "drip".
What is gonorrhea?
This type of immunity is gained after receiving a vaccine.
What is active immunity?
These are diseases that can be passed from one person to another.
What are communicable diseases?
TB primarily affects this organ.
What is the lung?
This hepatitis virus can be prevented through vaccination and is spread through blood or body fluids.
What is Hepatitis B?
This STI is characterized by primary, secondary, latent and tertiary stages.
What is syphilis?
The MMR vaccine prevents against measles, mumps and this third disease.
What is rubella?
This period is the time between exposure to a pathogen and symptom onset.
What is the incubation period?
This skin test, starting with the letter M, is commonly used to screen for TB infection.
What is the Mantoux tuberculin skin test?
The 'silent epidemic' nickname for this hepatitis comes from the fact that symptoms may not appear for decades.
What is Hepatitis C?
This is the most commonly reported STI in the U.S.
What is chlamydia?
This concept describes when enough people are immune to a disease spread.
What is herd immunity?
Prevention measures for this disease consist of community-based adulticide treatments.
What is West Nile virus?
This active form of TB can be spread through these airborne particles.
What are droplets/aerosols?
The best way to detect hepatitis infection is through this test.
What is a blood test?
This painless sore (lesion) appears during the primary stage of syphilis.
What is a chancre?
The varicella vaccine immunizes against this disease.
What is chicken pox?
This disease caused a global pandemic in 2019.
What is COVID-19?
This drug that starts with the letter I, is often used for TB prevention in people with latent infection.
What is Isoniazid (INH)?
True or False, Hepatitis B can be transmitted through food and water.
What is False?
This spiral-shaped micro-organism (spirochete) causes syphilis.
What is Treponema pallidum?
The Tdap vaccine protects against tetanus, diphtheria and this disease.
What is pertussis (whooping cough)?
Malaria is spread by this vector.
What is the Anopheles mosquito?
TB is caused by this bacterium.
What is Mycobacterium tuberculosis?