Disease Transmission
Pathogens
Disease Prevention
Famous Outbreaks
Fun Facts
100
What is the "kissing disease"
Ebstein Barr virus; Infectious Mononucleosis (Mono)
100
What is the only infectious disease to be eradicated
Smallpox, Variola major
100
What is the easiest and most effective way to prevent the spread of germs
Hand Washing (thoroughly)
100
What disease is thought of of killed over half of Europe's population during the time of the Byzantine Empire?
Bubonic Plague, The Plague of Justinian,
Yersinia pestis
100
What animal can sniff out tuberculosis in an infected person?
A rat
200
How is Lyme Disease transmitted?
Vector, by the bite of an infected tick.
200
What are the 4 different types of pathogens?
Virus, Fungi, Bacteria and Protozoa
200
What is the single best way to prevent getting the seasonal flu?
Get vaccinated!!
200
What "supposedly eliminated" infectious disease is currently making a comeback in the United States?
Measles
200
What is the common name of Varicella zoster infection?
Chicken pox
300
What are the three most common ways for disease to be transmitted?
Through the air, through human contact (stool, blood, saliva) and through vectors (mosquitos)
300
Where was HIV/AIDS first identified?
The Democratic Republic of Congo in 1976.
300
What type of technological advancements have made it easier for pathogens to spread?
Airplanes, boats, trains
Any interregional/international form of travel can make what was once a localized outbreak, a full force Pandemic.
300
What disease killed more people than bullets during WW1?
Influenza, over 500 million were infected took the disease less than nine weeks to reach all continents.
300
What infectious disease is Magic Johnson living with?
HIV/AIDS
400
What is the most infectious virus in the world?
Measles
400
What Infectious Disease is in the top 5 killers of people world wide?
Pneumonia
400
Are vaccines associated with autism?
No
400
What infectious disease was contained in contaminated blankets that the British provided the Native Americans during the French and Indian War.
SmallPox
400
What disease afflicted Franklin D. Roosevelt in his adulthood leading to his inability to walk.
and
In the 1950's, Jonas Salk introduced what famous vaccine to make going to the pool in the summer safe again?
Polio
500
What infection of your liver can be transmitted through eating raw seafood.
Hepatitis A
500
What infectious virus is represented in this electron micrograph
Ebola
500
A doctor places a sick person in "isolation".
A public health professional places an exposed person in what?
Quarantine
500
An outbreak of what famous disease first occurred in a Philadelphia Hotel involving former us military personal in 1976?
Legionnaires disease, Legionella pneumophila
also Pneumonia
500
What infectious disease was nicknamed "consumption"?
Tuberculosis