Public Health Peeps
He's the Father of Medicine.
Who is Hippocrates?
The only infectious disease eradicated as a result of vaccine campaigns.
What is smallpox?
This colorless, odorless, radioactive gas is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States.
What is radon?
This law sparked much debate among policymakers. It was enacted in 2010 after a 219-212 House vote.
What is the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare?
This virus is sometimes referred to as swine flu.
What is H1N1?
He's known as the Father of Epidemiology because of his work mapping cholera outbreaks in London.
Who is John Snow?
This disease mainly affects the lungs and has drug resistant strains.
What is tuberculosis?
This layer of the atmosphere absorbs ultraviolet radiation from the sun.
What is the ozone layer?
These public health measures have received bad press in recent decades due to a now-debunked study that linked them autism.
What are vaccines?
CDC deployed experts to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, neighboring countries, and the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters during this viral outbreak.
What is ebola?
She is often referred to as the founder of modern nursing and is known for providing aid to wounded soldiers during the Crimean war.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This is considered the deadliest pandemic in history.
What is The Black Death?
The number of years it takes a glass bottle to decompose.
What is up to 1 million years?
Sales of this contraceptive device were halted in 1974 after it was found to cause pelvic infections & severe injury - in part due to the device’s jagged “fins” that often embedded in the uterus.
What is an IUD?
CDC’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) was activated for this viral outbreak on January 22, 2016, and moved to a level 1 activation—the highest level – on February 8, 2016.
What is Zika?
In 1928, he was the first to demonstrate the antibacterial properties of penicillin.
Who is Sir Alexander Fleming?
This virus has caused more widespread epidemics and pandemics than any other in the world.
What is influenza?
The contamination of indoor/outdoor environment by any chemical, physical or biological agent that modifies the natural characteristics of the atmosphere.
What is air pollution?
Several states have overturned or attempted to overturn this reproductive rights law.
What is Roe v. Wade?
CDC declared the eradication of this disabling and life-threatening disease a public health emergency in need of a coordinated incident management response.
What is polio?
She is the founder of the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is a contagious and life-threatening infection that can lead to this disease.
What is pneumonia?
Each person in the United States uses approximately ____ gallons of water per day (EPA estimate).
What is 82?
Exposure control guidelines and mandates have sparked major public debate for this viral infection.
What is COVID-19?
On March 14, 2003, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched an emergency public health response and established national surveillance for this disease to identify case-patients in the United States and determine if domestic transmission was occurring.
What is SARS?