Acronyms Aplenty
The largest international health organization
What is the WHO?
An infection caused by Plasmodium falciparum.
What is malaria?
The founder of Partners in Health, his life story is told in "Mountain Beyond Mountains"
Who is Paul Farmer?
Found in tonic water, it was the earliest antimalarial
What is quinine?
Now treatable, this infection killed millions in Europe in multiple waves of infection.
What is the bubonic plague?
A common postgrad degree in global health
What is MPH?
A deadly sickness transmitted by the tsetse fly.
What is sleeping sickness?
One of the first epidemiologists, he traced cholera in London to a public pump
Who is John Snow?
This prophylactic is infamous for nightmares and occasional psychosis.
Hemorrhagic fever with current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo
What is Ebola?
The "local" branch of the WHO
What is PAHO?
Also known as breakbone fever, reinfection can cause deadly hemorrhage
What is dengue fever?
After making his fortune in tech, he and his wife turned to funding global health projects
Who is Bill Gates?
Widely used for prophylaxis, this drug now has widespread resistance throughout the world
What is chloroquine?
This deadly respiratory infection killed hundreds in Hong Kong and China in 2002.
What is SARS?
A term that includes water and toilets
What is WaSH?
Transmitted by a bite from a "kissing bug," this infection can break your heart.
What is Chagas disease?
This ex-President was devoted to eradicating neglected tropical diseases
Who is Jimmy Carter?
Derivatives of this extract from the wormwood plant are the most recently developed antimalarials.
What is artemisinin?
This strain caused the 2009 influenza pandemic aka "swine flu"
What is H1N1?