Characters
What kind of student was Mitty in the beginning of the book?
Lazy Slacker
Smallpox was finally eradicated during this year.
What is 1977?
What were the first 2 symptoms of the virus that Mitty displayed in the novel?
What is dry mouth & headache?
Where Mitty is kept.
What is a basement?
This infectious disease was brought about by Mary Mallon. She was quarantined for more than 20 years due to her illness.
What is Typhoid Fever?
The research topic Ms.Abrams provides Mitty?
Monsters in Literature VS. Monsters in Infectious Disease
The name of the book in which Mitty found the smallpox scabs.
What is Principles of Contagious Disease?
This is how the virus spreads. (3 methods)
What is coughing, sneezing, or breathing?
Mitty finally makes it out of the terrorist captivity on this day.
What is February 15?
The VM epidemic overtook Boston during this year.
What is 1902?
Derek is studying anthrax. What is the name of the most popular elderly anthrax victim?
Ottilie Lundgren
How many days does it take to advance into the final stage of full-blown smallpox?
What is 14 Days?
True or False: When a person is first infected by Variola Major, they show a rash and begin to have flu-like symptoms by Day 5.
What is False?
The captor's ringtone, leading Mitty to believe his captors were not Americans.
What is "Here Comes the Bride"?
This is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals
What is malaria?
Olivia Clark wants to be a nurse once she graduates college. True or False?
What is false?
The name of the FBI agent that came to visit Olivia and Derek.
Agent Finelli
In this year, Donald Henderson practiced ring immunization.
What is 1965?
Mitty throws soap and water into his captor's eyes during this chapter.
What is Chapter 13?
This is a viral disease that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals.The disease is zoonotic, meaning it can be transmitted from one species to another, such as from dogs to humans, commonly by a bite from an infected animal.
What is rabies?
Derek's last name?
Who is Skorvanek?
What was the name of the CDC agent/epidemiologist that came to visit Olivia and Derek at school?
Barb Graham
During this year Edward Jenner took a dairymaid who had open cowpox sores on her hand and rubbed her wound on an open cut in a child's arm. The boy never got smallpox and this man believes he has found a cure.
What is 1796?
What is the name of the pipe Mitty plugged to created Carbon Monoxide?
What is flue pipe?
Nine-Tenths of the Native Tribes died from smallpox during this time frame, due to the European Traders spreading the disease.
What is 1616-1619 ?