Infectious Disease
This virus caused a global pandemic starting in 2019.
What is COVID-19?
This term describes an emergency kit of supplies you grab if you have to leave quickly.
What is go bag?
Policies requiring wearing these led to reduction of mortality and injury related to motor vehicles.
What are seatbelts?
This ancient medical theory suggests that health depends on balancing four bodily fluids.
In Parks and Recreation, several characters are hospitalized with this infectious disease.
What is influenza?
Passed through food or water, or close contact with an infected person, this liver infection is a concern in Kansas.
What is Hepatitis A?
Its abbreviation is ICS.
What is Incident Command System?
Increasing the sales tax for purchasing these carcinogenic products created reductions in a major cause of lung cancer.
What are cigarettes?
John Snow conduced the first epidemiological survey on this disease.
An episode of this show features a chaotic fire drill which is a guidebook in “what not to do” for a preparedness exercise.
What is The Office?
In 2025, this infectious disease outbreak emerged in southwest Kansas in populations hesitant to provide vaccines.
What is Measles?
This 2001 event led to major investments in public health preparedness infrastructure.
What are Anthrax Attacks?
Wichita is one of a few cities in Kansas which does not add this to their water contrary to guidance for promoting oral health.
What is flouride?
This pandemic that killed up to 50 million people likely originated in Haskell County, KS.
What is the Spanish Flu?
Fungal infections in bread products was the catalyst event featured in this video game and TV show.
What is The Last of Us?
These two pests (or vectors), common in Kansas, are leading the concerns about infectious disease and climate change.
What are ticks and mosquitos?
This type of exercise simulates a discussion-based emergency scenario without deployment.
What is tabletop exercise?
The addition of iodine to this food is an example of policy via agency regulation which has a significant impact to health.
What is salt?
Before germ theory, this accepted framework suggested that “bad air” caused infectious diseases.
What is Miasma Theory?
This PBS show describes the work of nurses and episcopal sisters serving an impoverished London neighborhood.
What is Call the Midwife?
This STI’s name means “flow of seed” in Greek.
What is Gonorrhea?
Public health is captured in this Emergency Support Function.
What is 8 / ESF-8?
Agency regulations is another form of policy. The FDA regulates the addition of this nutrient to grain products to reduce neural tube defects.
What is folic acid?
This coastal city experienced a bubonic plague outbreak that led to the disease becoming endemic among chipmunks in the western United States.
What is San Francisco?
This song heavily refers to the HIV/ AIDs public health epidemic.
*Sound Hint*
Waterfalls by TLC