Vocabulary
A living creature that carries a pathogen to another living creature.
What is a vector?
This symptom is characterized by having an abnormally high body temperature.
What is a fever?
These kind of diseases are carried by one living creature or animal and transmitted to another.
What is vector-borne?
This is a large town where many people live in close proximity.
What is a city?
These large sailing vessels allow travel across the seas for both cargo and passengers.
What are ships?
This is a contagious disease moves rapidly through a population and leaves many of its victims dead.
What is a plague?
This word means to eject something from the stomach out of the mouth.
What is vomiting?
This period of disease in Europe began with the Black Death in 1346 and continued for the next 300 years.
What is The Second Pandemic?
These furry or feathered friends differ from their wild cousins in that they have been tamed by humans to be beasts of labor, a source of food, or pets.
What are domesticated animals?
These wheeled vehicles, pulled by horses or some other beast of labor, allow cargo to be transported over land.
What are wagons?
This kind of plague is named after the large tumors that would appear on the the infected and bleed if punctured.
What is bubonic plague?
This disturbed state of mind is accompanied by confusion, disorientation, agitation, and hallucinations.
What is delirium?
This kind of disease is one that has crossed from animals to humans or from humans to animals.
What is zoonotic?
These networks of travel on land or sea allow for the transportation of cargo and people from one place to another.
What are trade routes?
These bipedal mammals are great navigators who have traveled the globe and are excellent at spreading disease from one place to another. To find one, you need only look in a mirror.
What are humans?
This term refers to the number of deaths caused by a certain event or disease.
What is mortality?
This is a general feeling of discomfort, fatigued, or being ill.
What is malaise?
This network of organs, tissues, and vessels drains liquid containing white blood cells into the body's bloodstream.
What is the lymphatic system?
These practices or conditions of keeping things clean help prevent disease and maintain good health.
What is hygiene?
These furry, little rodents tend to make large colonies around human settlements and scavenge food from trash their human neighbors leave behind. As such they are considered unclean and avoided.
What are rats?
This term refers to the state of being unhealthy or symptomatic due to a sickness or infection.
What is morbidity?
These painful swellings around the neck, armpit, and groin bleed when punctured.
What are buboes?
This bacterium that is normally responsible for disease in burrowing rodents is the cause of the plague in humans.
What is Yersinia Pestis?
This school of medical thought coming from the Latin term for "bad air," attributed bad smells for being the cause of disease.
What is miasma theory?
These small, jumping insects feed off of the blood of mammals and birds and tend to make their homes in fur, fair, feathers, or fabrics.
What are fleas?