Epidemiology
Washing your hands helps stop the spread of these tiny living things that cause illness.
What are germs?
A shot that trains your body to fight a germ is called this.
What is a vaccine?
The pandemic that began in 2019–2020 and made people wear masks was this disease.
What is COVID-19?
This Geneva-based UN agency goes by the initials WHO.
What is the World Health Organization?
Trick-or-treaters wear reflective gear and carry flashlights so these vehicles can see them.
What are cars?
A disease that spreads across the whole world is called this kind of outbreak.
What is a pandemic?
A vaccine helps your body build this, its defense against germs.
What is immunity?
The ‘Black Death’ of the Middle Ages was this disease, spread by fleas on rats.
What is the plague?
Healthy eating and exercise are ways of stopping illness before it starts. This is called this.
What is prevention?
Brushing with this mineral-containing toothpaste helps prevent cavities from all that candy.
What is fluoride?
A sudden rise in cases of a disease in one community is called this.
What is an outbreak (or epidemic)?
This virus gives people fever and cough every winter, and a shot each fall helps prevent it.
What is the flu (influenza)?
This deadly virus caused a huge outbreak in West Africa in 2014.
What is Ebola?
This US program helps cover health care for Americans age 65 and older.
What is Medicare?
Hidden peanuts in candy can trigger this kind of reaction in kids with food ___.
What are allergies?
Scientists who track how diseases spread work in this field, whose name starts with ‘epi’.
What is epidemiology?
This disease causes red spots and fever, and it is the ‘M’ in the MMR vaccine.
What is measles?
In 1854, John Snow stopped a cholera outbreak in London by shutting down one of these.
What is a water pump?
Many cities ban this habit in restaurants because secondhand [blank] harms health.
What is smoking?
Pumpkin carving sends many people to the ER with cuts to these body parts.
What are hands (or fingers)?
A disease that passes from one person to another is called this.
What is contagious (or infectious)?
This disease, eradicated in 1980, was the first one wiped out worldwide.
What is smallpox?
This virus, Sexual, weakens the body’s immune system.
What is HIV?
The 1986 Ottawa Charter defines this field as enabling people to increase control over, and improve, their own health.
What is health promotion?
Costume masks can block this sense, so experts suggest face paint or no mask.
What is sight (vision)?