🗺️ HEALTH AROUND THE WORLD
This fermented Korean side dish is famous for its probiotics.
What is kimchi?
Mosquitoes spread this disease, caused by the Plasmodium parasite.
What is malaria?
Your skin makes this vitamin when exposed to sunlight.
What is vitamin D?
Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital in Grey’s Anatomy is located in this city.
What is Seattle?
Fill in the blank on the famous T-shirt: “Ithaca is ______.”
What is Gorges?
The 17 “SDGs” the UN adopted in 2015 stand for this.
What are the Sustainable Development Goals?
Antibiotics work against these germs, but not against viruses.
What are bacteria?
Sailors got scurvy from not getting enough of this vitamin.
What is vitamin C?
The pink ribbon is the symbol for awareness of this disease.
What is breast cancer?
In 1997, someone put one of these on top of McGraw Tower, and nobody has ever confirmed how.
What is pumpkin?
In 2023, this country passed China as the most populous country on Earth.
What is India?
When an epidemic spreads across multiple countries or continents, it becomes this.
What is a pandemic?
It’s the hardest substance in the human body.
What is tooth enamel?
The 2014 Ice Bucket Challenge raised money for research on this disease.
What is ALS?
At Harvard hockey games, the “Lynah Faithful” famously throw this onto the ice.
What are fish?
Declared eradicated in 1980, this is the only human disease ever wiped out worldwide.
What is smallpox?
In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered this first antibiotic after noticing mold growing in one of his petri dishes.
What is penicillin?
The number of bones in the adult human body.
What is 206?
This 2011 movie starring Matt Damon follows a deadly virus spreading around the world.
What is Contagion?
These two figures founded the College of Human Ecology.
Who are Martha Van Rensselaer and Flora Rose?
This traditional Indonesian herbal drink is often made with turmeric and ginger.
What is jamu?
Thanks largely to the Carter Center, this parasitic disease is close to becoming the second human disease ever eradicated.
What is Guinea worm disease (dracunculiasis)?
Deficiency in this mineral is the most common nutritional deficiency in the world and a leading cause of anemia.
What is iron?
This hit 2025 HBO Max medical drama follows ER doctors through one 15-hour shift in a Pittsburgh hospital.
What is The Pitt?
What is the Alternatives Library (located in Anabel Taylor Hall)?