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Epidemiology
Agents/Pathogens
Vocabulary
Diseases in History
Surprise
100
The words at each corner of the Epidemiologic Triangle.
What are agent, host, and environment?
100
Specific agent of diseases such as HIV
What is a virus?
100
Term for when a population has a high level of a disease all of the time.
What is endemic?
100
Continent most affected by the Black Death.
What is Europe?
100
Agent currently responsible for epidemic in the USA.
What is influenza?
200
Where the disease agent originated in the "Disease Detective" activity you did earlier in the unit
What is the pond?
200
Malaria's vector.
What is a mosquito?
200
Any condition that impairs normal function.
What is a disease?
200
The actual disease to which the Black Death refers.
What is bubonic plague?
200
The exact location where the London cholera epidemic you read about started....be specific!
What is the Broad Street Pump?
300
Country where most believe the Spanish Flu of 1918 began.
What is the USA?
300
Study of disease in a population.
What is epidemiology?
300
Another word for infectious.
What is communicable?
300
Disease most associated with Jonas Salk.
What is polio?
300
Smallpox vaccine creator.
Who is Edward Jenner?
400
SARS is an acronym for this.
What is Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome?
400
Vector of Lyme Disease (that poor Mr. Johnson has experienced).
What is a tick?
400
The Spanish Flu of 1918: thhe world's most deadly ___________.
What is a Pandemic?
400
The women that Edward Jenner thought were immune to smallpox.
Who are the milkmaids?
400
What the acronym AIDS stands for.
What is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome?
500
Father of epidemiology...think London...and Cholera.
Who is Dr. John Snow?
500
Yersinia Pestis
What is the agent/cause of bubonic plague/Black Death?
500
Cancers, Cardiovascular and Pulmonary, Genetic are examples of....
What are non-infectious diseases?
500
Name for the nasty, foul odor that many early scientists believed was the cause of death during cholera outbreaks
What is miasma?
500
The four countries where polio still exists.
What are India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria?