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Step aside Jaws, this animal is known as the deadliest in the world.
What is a mosquito?
This virus was the first infectious disease widely controlled by vaccination
What is smallpox?
This bacterial disease went by many names, including the white plague, the romantic disease, and consumption.
What is tuberculosis?
The causative agent of the Plague of Justinian and the Black Death
What is Yersinia pestis?
The bane of Napoleon's Russian campaign, this disease, that is spread by body lice, is also known as jail fever.
What is typhus?
This mosquito borne illness, caused by an virus from the genus Orthoflavivirus, is thought to have been introduced to the United States by way of the import of birds from East Africa.
What is West Nile Virus?
Robert Koch, a pioneer of early microbiology, got his start by identifying the causative agent of this disease, which would later go on to create a "mail borne" scare in the United States.
What is anthrax?
Now thought to have originated in Kansas, wartime censors suppressed the news of its outbreak, while certain neutral countries reported on it first, leading to this misnomer.
What is the Spanish Flu?
Caused by the bite of a tsetse fly, this disease's hallmark symptoms include circadian rhythm disruptions.
What is sleeping sickness?
This viral disease, also known as cattle plague, recently became only the second disease ever to be eradicated.
What is rinderpest?
This disease, caused primarily by bacteria from the genus Shigella, might be something one would succumb to on the Oregon Trail.
What is dysentery?
Known as the father of epidemiology, this physician cut his teeth during the 1846-1860 cholera pandemic.
Who is John Snow?
This disease, caused by a protozoan parasite, did not exist in the New World until the 1500s, introduced largely in part due to the transatlantic slave trade.
What is malaria?
Known to disrupt many a cruise, this virus is also known as the stomach flu.
What is norovirus?
This bacteria was the first to be identified as having resistance to penicillin, only one year after penicillin's approval for use in humans.
What is Staphylococcus aureus?
This modern day country lost a third of its population due to a smallpox epidemic in the 730s AD.
What is Japan?
One of the earliest known human diseases, this flatworm was found in 6000 year old human fossils.
What is schistosomiasis?
This type of cancer is caused by a retrovirus, a type of virus that reverses the process of transcription in cells, tricking host cells into converting viral RNA into DNA.
What is adult T-cell leukemia?
Prior to World Health Organization public campaigns, this bacterial disease had over 50 million cases, in regions of the world with an average annual temperature of 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
What is yaws?
This Greek physician described the Antonine Plague, providing us with one of the earliest written accounts of pandemic with a death toll in the millions.
Who is Galen?