Food and Waterborne Diseases
According to Philip Tierno, a microbiologist of the New York University School of Medicine, this room in common houses is the dirtiest, harboring many food-borne pathogens.
Kitchen
The most recent Philippines Measles outbreak occured in this year
2019
The first dengue vaccine, the infamous Dengvaxia® (CYD-TDV), was developed by this company
Sanofi Pasteur
A trade deal with China unleashed one of the deadliest of the great pandemics. Italy was hit especially hard.
Bubonic plague
This theory, hypothesized by Doctor Girolamo Fracastoro, states that "it is actually small, living particles that cause disease"
Germ Theory
World Hepatitis Day falls on this date
July 28
He developed the first polio vaccine
Jonas Salk
World Rabies Day falls on this date
September 28
This pandemic occured during the first world war. Fun Fact, the disease killed more people than the actual war!
The Spanish Flu
Sickness was once thought to have been caused by an imbalance of this collective term for: blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm.
Humors
Doctors called her the most dangerous woman in America. An immigrant who had worked as a cook, she was New York’s patient zero, passing the fever to 51 people. By year’s end, 20,000 had died.
Mary "Typhoid Mary" Mallon
Aside from anti-toxoids and immunoglobulins, it is the drug of choice to treat (not cure) a patient with Tetanus.
Metronidazole
The name of this disease is derived from the Italian words for "bad air"
Malaria
This sacred text instructed in its guide to pandemics. “If you hear of a plague in a land, do not enter it; and if it breaks out in the land where you stay, do not leave.”
Holy Quran
In the early 20th century, this branch of science was introduced into epidemiology thereby adding statistical support to the field
Mathematics
As of 1961, there have been this number of Cholera Pandemics
Seven (7)
Charles IV of Spain launched history’s first global immunization campaign. The pathogens of this disease were extracted from a diseased cow, then passed arm-to-arm in a human chain from the Canary Islands to the Americas and then on to the Philippines.
Smallpox
The written history of leptospirosis was initiated by this Professor of Medicine at Heidelburg University.
Adolf Weil
The first case of Ebola was documented in this West African Country
Guinea
He is Dubbed as the Father of Field Epidemiology.
John Snow
The first documented case of Cholera in the Philippines happened on this year
1858
In 1613, Spain experienced an epidemic of this disease. The year is known as El Año de los Garrotillos (The Year of Strangulations) in the history of Spain.
Diphtheria
The name of this disease is derived from a word in the Kimakonde language, meaning “to become contorted”
Chikungunya
In February 1692, in the Massachusetts village of Salem, eight young women were accused by their neighbors of witchcraft. However, some historians blame the hysteria on a viral fever spread by insects and birds.
Encephalitis
he is the first person known to have examined the relationships between the occurrence of disease and environmental influences.
Hippocrates