Global Health Challenges
This respiratory disease caused the global pandemic declared in 2020.
What is COVID-19?
This disease caused the “Black Death” in Europe during the 14th century.
What is the bubonic plague?
This organ filters blood and produces urine.
What is the kidney?
Doctors recommend washing hands for about this many seconds to remove germs.
What is 20 seconds?
The prefix “cardio-” refers to this organ.
What is the heart?
This mosquito-borne disease causes hundreds of millions of infections annually.
What is malaria?
This virus attacks the immune system and can lead to AIDS.
What is HIV?
This part of the brain controls balance and coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
These stimulate the immune system to protect against disease.
What are vaccines?
This prefix means above normal or excessive.
What is hyper?
This organization coordinates international public health responses.
What is the World Health Organization?
This term describes when a disease spreads rapidly across multiple countries or continents.
What is a pandemic?
These tiny air sacs in the lungs allow oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange.
What are alveoli?
This public health measure limits movement to stop disease spread.
What is a quarantine?
The term osteoporosis refers to a condition involving weakening of these body structures.
What are bones?
This condition occurs when children don’t get enough nutrients for healthy growth.
What is malnutrition?
This bacterial disease primarily affects the lungs and spreads through airborne droplets.
What is tuberculosis?
This muscle separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity.
What is the diaphragm?
This concept refers to protecting a population when enough people are immune to a disease.
What is herd immunity?
The term “hematology” refers to the study of this substance in the body.
What is blood?
This vitamin deficiency historically caused sailors to develop bleeding gums and weakness.
What is scurvy?
This was the first widely used antibiotic that revolutionized medicine in the 1940s.
What is penicillin?
This nerve is the longest in the human body and runs from the lower back down the legs.
What is the sciatic nerve?
This Canadian doctor discovered insulin in 1921.
Who is Frederick Banting?
The prefix “presby-” refers to this.
What is elderly or old age?