1910s-1930s
1940s-1950s
1960s-1970s
1980s-1990s
2000-Present
100

A test using blood that detects the presence of antibodies.

What is serologic testing?

100

 Specializes in tracing the source of a disease.

What is the Epidemic Intelligence Service?

100

Vaccine for measles, mumps, and rubella

What is the MMR vaccine?

100

December 1st is recognized as this global awareness day, first established in 1988.

What is World AIDS Day?

100

The most significant global pandemic of the 21st century?

What is the COVID-19 Pandemic?

200

Discovered penicillin when he noticed bacteria was not growing near it in a petri dish.

Who is Alexander Fleming?

200

The year Malaria was eradicated in the U.S.

What is 1951?

200

The CT scan helps to diagnose these infectious lung diseases

What are Tuberculosis and Pneuma?

200

This drug, approved in 1987, was the first antiretroviral; treatment for HIV.

What is AZT?

200

Reduced rates of cervical cancer

What is the result of the introduction of the HPV vaccine?

300

The 1918 Spanish Influenza, one of the deadliest disease outbreaks in history, resulted in this.

What are civilian first aid programs AND/OR funding for training public health nurses?

300

The first case found in a bat

What is rabies?

300

This program was launched to ensure children in all countries could access life-saving vaccines

What is the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI)?

300

A vaccine for this liver disease became widely available in 1997?

What is Hepatitis A?

300

The first widespread use of mRNA technology.

What is COVID-19 vaccine development?

400

The person who discovered cell cultures which are important in understanding disease mechanisms.

Who is Ross Granville Harrison?

400

Virus & Rickettsia Laboratory in Montgomery, Alabama

What is the laboratory in which they investigated rabies?

400

The Salmonella Surveillance Program’s job

What is to track the number of outbreaks, antibiotic-resistant strains, and subtypes of Salmonella?

400

This combination therapy, introduced in 1996, drastically reduced AIDS-related deaths.

What is HAART?

400

Travel screening, rapid response, and stronger health systems in outbreak-prone areas.


What needs arose with the West African Ebola Epidemic?

500

Charles Nicolle found that this helped to stop the spread of Typhus in the early 1900s.

What is good hygiene AND/OR staying physically clean?

500

Something that was developed for rabies and field trials demonstrated 100% accuracy.

What is the fluorescent antibody?

500

The year the Rubella virus was isolated

What is 1960?

500

What year saw the first reported case of HIV/AIDS marking the start of a global epidemic?

What is 1983?
500

Ongoing research aims to provide long-lasting protection and reduce the need for annual vaccinations.

What is current Universal Flu Vaccine Research?