Patient Zero Jeopardy

Epidemics

100

This epidemic began in Wuhan, China in 2019 

COVID-19

200

This epidemic can be traced back to fleas on rats

Bubonic plague

300

The symptoms of this epidemic sickness are diarrhea, vomiting, thirst, cramps, nausea, and seizures

Cholera

400

Symptoms include: fever, headache, chills, weakness, discoloration of the eyes 

Yellow Fever

500

This flu in 1918 killed 50 million people

Spanish Flu 

Investigators

100

This investigator was chased out of the kitchen with a knife. 

George Soper 

200

This investigator was the one who established the germ theory during the Soho Cholera Outbreak.

John Snow

300

This doctor with the help of two police officers was able to investigated Typhoid Mary.

Dr. Josephine Baker 

400

This investigator, initially a non-believer in germ theory, worked with John Snow 

Henry Whitehead

500

This investigator established the theory of "sickly years". He published the Bills of Mortality and has been called the "father of epidemiology".

John Graunt 

Patient Zeroes

100

This Patient Zero worked as a cook for wealthy people. 

Mary Mallon 

200

This person tested mosquitoes on himself and died because he was infected with Yellow Fever. 

Dr. Jesse Lazear

300

Name the mother of the Patient Zero of the cholera epidemic OR name Patient Zero

Sarah Lewis  OR Baby Francis Lewis

400

This person passed away due to drinking water from the Broad Street Pump, even though she lived the farthest away. 

Susanna Eley, a widow, - her sons delivered the water daily because she thought it tasted "sweet" 

500

This Patient Zero began the Great Plague of London by discarding a rat.

Goodwoman Phillips

Miscellaneous

100

Before germ theory was accepted most people thought diseases were spread by _______

Miasma 

200

In order to find the cause of the disease the investigators of the Broad Street Cholera outbreak removed the

Water pump handle

300

This doctor established the theory of asymptomatic carriers.

Dr. Robert Koch

400

Why did the world think that the Spanish Influenza started in Spain?

Wartime Censorship or Communication Bans during the war

500

Name the Location that saw the beginning of the Spanish Influenza in the United States. 

Private Gitchell was Patient Zero.   

Camp Funston