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This is a type of infection that originates in animals and jumps to humans where transmission is then spread through the human population through human-to-human transmission.
What is zoonotic?
According to Our World in Data, this is the leading killer of all adults in the world.
What are cardiovascular diseases?
Who is Paul Farmer?
A reliable source of information from an organization or governmental agency that has not undergone the peer review process.
What is gray literature?
Using the ring vaccination technique when the vaccine was in short-supply, this is the only disease that has been eradicated in human history.
What is smallpox?
The severe anemia caused by this parasite contributed significantly to decreased productivity in the Southern United States.
What is hookworm?
The United States ranks dead last among developed nations for this health outcome and the racial disparity between Blacks and whites is 3:1.
What is maternal mortality?
Her father was the author of many beloved children's books - The BFG, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach and she was one of the co-founders of Partners in Health.
Who is Ophelia Dahl?
This is the number of new cases of a disease in a specific location.
What is incidence?
Highly preventable, these diseases are the leading killers of children under 5 worldwide.
What is diarrheal illness and pneumonia?
Our modern-day yearly influenza epidemics arose from this pandemic.
What is the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919?
This condition indicates prolonged malnutrition in childhood and follows wasting.
What is stunting?
A co-founder of Partners in Health, this Korean-American was the first physician to serve as Present of the World Bank.
Who is Jim Kim?
This sign or symptom is seen specifically only in one disease or condition.
What is pathognomonic?
This former first-lady chaired the United Nations Commission on Human Rights that declared health as a human right.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
Rotavirus, human papilloma virus, shingles, and SARS-Co-V-2 make up this category?
What are vaccines that were developed during our lifetime?
This is the most common micronutrient deficiency, affecting more than 25% of people worldwide.
What is iron deficiency?
Partners in Health was the first organization to recognize that multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis was a significant problem in this country.
What is Peru?
This is pathognomonic for measles and are often present one day before the onset of the characteristic rash.
What are Koplik's spots?
This potentially dangerous complication of pregnancy is characterized by hypertension and is preventable.
What is pre-eclampsia?
Getting its name from swollen lymph nodes, and nicknames "the Black Death", this killed millions of Europeans during the Middle Ages.
What is the Bubonic Plague?
This wave in the opioid epidemic is characterized by overdose deaths co-involving fentanyl with stimulants like methamphetamine and cocaine.
What is the 4th Wave?
Partners in Health was one of the international organizations working during the West African Ebola outbreak of 2013-16 in these two countries.
What is Sierra Leone and Liberia?
This refers to an infectious agent that is no longer living in nature or a laboratory.
What is extinction?
These are aftereffects of a disease, condition, or injury.
What are sequalae?