1910s-1930s
A test using blood that detects the presence of antibodies.
What is serologic testing?
Specializes in tracing the source of a disease.
What is the Epidemic Intelligence Service?
Vaccine for measles, mumps, and rubella
What is the MMR vaccine?
December 1st is recognized as this global awareness day, first established in 1988.
What is World AIDS Day?
The most significant global pandemic of the 21st century?
What is the COVID-19 Pandemic?
Discovered penicillin when he noticed bacteria was not growing near it in a petri dish.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
The year Malaria was eradicated in the U.S.
What is 1951?
The CT scan helps to diagnose these infectious lung diseases
What are Tuberculosis and Pneuma?
This drug, approved in 1987, was the first antiretroviral; treatment for HIV.
What is AZT?
Reduced rates of cervical cancer
What is the result of the introduction of the HPV vaccine?
The 1918 Spanish Influenza, one of the deadliest disease outbreaks in history, resulted in this.
What are civilian first aid programs AND/OR funding for training public health nurses?
The first case found in a bat
What is rabies?
This program was launched to ensure children in all countries could access life-saving vaccines
What is the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI)?
A vaccine for this liver disease became widely available in 1997?
What is Hepatitis A?
The first widespread use of mRNA technology.
What is COVID-19 vaccine development?
The person who discovered cell cultures which are important in understanding disease mechanisms.
Who is Ross Granville Harrison?
Virus & Rickettsia Laboratory in Montgomery, Alabama
What is the laboratory in which they investigated rabies?
The Salmonella Surveillance Program’s job
What is to track the number of outbreaks, antibiotic-resistant strains, and subtypes of Salmonella?
This combination therapy, introduced in 1996, drastically reduced AIDS-related deaths.
What is HAART?
Travel screening, rapid response, and stronger health systems in outbreak-prone areas.
What needs arose with the West African Ebola Epidemic?
Charles Nicolle found that this helped to stop the spread of Typhus in the early 1900s.
What is good hygiene AND/OR staying physically clean?
Something that was developed for rabies and field trials demonstrated 100% accuracy.
What is the fluorescent antibody?
The year the Rubella virus was isolated
What is 1960?
What year saw the first reported case of HIV/AIDS marking the start of a global epidemic?
Ongoing research aims to provide long-lasting protection and reduce the need for annual vaccinations.
What is current Universal Flu Vaccine Research?