Pandemics
This was the most deadly pandemic in the 20th century
What is The Spanish flu
A concept in which somebody tries to make succumbing to a disease less likely rather then treating the disease after the person gets it.
What is preventative care?
The organization whose acronym is WHO established in 1948.
What is the World Health Organization?
This disease peaked during the 20th to 21st century and has disproportionally affected the older generation of the global population
What is Alzheimer’s Disease?
This type of medicine targets bacteria diseases which were responsible for a great majority of infectious disease deaths before their discovery.
What are antibiotics?
The deadliest epidemic in annual death toll relative to population in human history.
What is The Black Death?
The most famous and effective type of preventative care.
What is vaccination?
This famous pandemic was caused by an immense war.
Spanish Flu
This disease is transmitted through infected mosquito bites and has proportionally affected people in Africa
What is malaria?
This type of medication targets fungal diseases which were very dangerous before their invention and still kind of are.
What is an antifungal?
The bacterium that causes the bubonic plague.
The relatively harmless virus Edward Jenner exposed people to in a controlled setting to generate the first vaccine.
What is cowpox?
The plan under which the US swore technological, economic and most importantly for our purposes medical aid to developing nations in order to combat communism.
This pandemic led to more discrimination against gay people and was spread through bodily fluids.
What is AIDS?
The first antibiotic ever discovered.
What is Penecillin?
This disease in its most severe form paralyzes the victim and leaves them unable to survive unless in an iron lung.
What is Polio?
The Three Levels Of Preventative Care
The reasons that Europeans never got any kind of America Pox/Civilization Destroying illness/Octodecimating illness from the new world.
What is a greater urbanization and more exposure to domesticated animals leading to a more resilient immune system?
The years during which the Spanish Flu Epidemic took place.
1918-1920
The type of organism antibiotics were first discovered on.
What are fungi?
Roughly the number of times more people as a proportion of the global population that died during Covid relative to the Spanish Flu.
What is 20-30?
The way Edward Jenner transported the disease he used for immunizations across vast distances.
What are chains of orphans?
What is the Spanish Flu?
This non zoonotic disease that has killed the most people of any in human history.
What is tuberculosis?
This is the first synthetic hormone.
What is Adrenaline?