Leprosy
In what part of the body does leprosy primarily affect the nerves and skin?
What is the peripheral nervous system (PNS)?
What is the other name for the Black Death, which refers to the swollen and painful lymph nodes that were a common symptom?
What is the Bubonic Plague?
When did cholera arrive in U.S. port cities?
What is 1832?
What is the bacterium that causes tuberculosis?
What is Mycobacterium tuberculosis?
Yellow fever is primarily transmitted by which type of insect?
What are mosquitos?
What disease is leprosy also known as?
What is Hansen’s Disease?
The Black Death is believed to have originated in what continent?
What is Asia?
What was the name of the street where “water never was used internally or externally, and the pigs were contaminated by contact of the children.”
What is Orange Street?
Tuberculosis primarily affects which part of the body?
What are the lungs (respiratory system)?
Where does yellow fever get its name from?
What is the jaundice it causes?
What is the popular term often used to describe the colonies or communities where individuals with leprosy were historically located?
What are leper colonies?
In which century did the Black Death devastate Europe, killing an estimated 25 million people?
What is the 14th century?
What were the two opposing beliefs of why Cholera spread?
What is contagionism and anticontagionism?
In the past, tuberculosis was often referred to by this name due to its ability to slowly waste away a person’s body.
What is “consumption”?
What racial group was believed to be immune to yellow fever, as it was used as an excuse to justify slavery?
What are black persons?
What percent of the population had leprosy in the Middle Ages?
What is less than one percent?
The Black Death was primarily spread by which type of insect?
What are fleas?
Cholera is known for causing rapid and severe dehydration. What is the main symptom of cholera?
What is diarrhea?
At the end of the 18th century, what proportion of deaths in England were attributable to this disease?
What is one in every four deaths?
What nickname was yellow fever also known as?
What is “The Strangers’ Disease”?
What bacteria is leprosy caused by?
What is Mycobacterium Leprae?
What is the name of the medical theory that attributed the Black Death to “bad air” or miasma?
What is the Miasmatic Theory?
During a cholera outbreak in London in 1854, a physician named John Snow is famous for his work in identifying the source of the disease. What was the source, and how did he identify it?
What is a contaminated public water pump on Broad Street, he identified it by mapping the cases of cholera and noticing a cluster around that pump?
What was the name of the antibiotic that revolutionized the treatment of tuberculosis?
What is streptomycin?
Who is the French scientist who developed the first successful vaccine for yellow fever?
Who is Albert Sabin?