In the book "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott, Beth scarlet fever, a complication of this common throat infection which had a much higher mortality rate in the 1800s than it does today.
Streptococcus pyogenese or Group A beta-hemolytic strep
100
The character Ratzo Rizzo, played by Dustin Hoffman in the movie Midnight Cowboy, most likely had this infection.
What is tubercullosis or TB?
100
This is another name for Fifth disease
What is parvovirus B-19 infection or erythema infectiosum?
100
This type of foodborne intoxication was suspected because the ill people complained of vomiting an hour after eating fried rice.
What is Bacillus cereus?
200
The Ingalls family attributes this illness, which they call "fever in ague" to eating watermelon in the book "Little House on the Prairie" by Laura Ingells Wilder.
What is malaria?
200
In the film "Out of Africa", Karen Blixen, (played by Meryl Streep) was given this infection by her husband Klaus.
What is Syphilis?
200
If there is a fifth disease, there must be a first. This is the First Disease
What is measles?
200
Consumption of raw oysters 7 hours before onset of severe non-bloody diarrhea, cramps and fever made Jenny suspect this foodborne agent.
What is Vibrio parahemolyticus?
300
This book by Randy Shilts chronicled the early years of the AIDS epidemic with an emphasis on government indifference and political infighting.
What is "And the Band Played On"?
300
The movied "Awakenings" starring Robert DeNiro and based upon a book by Oliver Sachs explores the treatment of people with locked-in syndrome which is left over from infection during this modern day pandemic?
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
300
This is "Second disease".
What is scarlet fever?
300
Fish that are naturally rich in the amino acid histidine will form this chemical upon decomposition, which, when ingested, causess flushing, a peppery taste in the mouth, tachycardia, and low blood pressure
What is histamine?
400
The best-selling non-fiction book, "The Hot Zone", about the viral hemorrhagic fever causing Marburg and Ebola viruses run amuck was originally based on an article in this magazine.
What is The New Yorker?
400
The movie "Balto" is based on the story of a Siberian Husky who led his sled dog team to Nome, Alaska with the antitoxin for this infectious disease. This race is commemorated in the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
What is diphtheria?
400
The Jeryl Lynn strain of this vaccine is named for the daughter of the team that created the first mumps vaccine for Merck.
What is mumps vaccine?
400
This is responsible for more than half of all food borne outbreaks in the United States.
What is norovirus?
500
The novel, written by Daniel Dafoe, chronicles the year 1665 when the black plague struck London.
What is "Journal of the Plague Year"?
500
In the 2007 movie "The Painted Veil", Edward Norton plays an infectious disease doctor who travels to China to fight a cholera epidemic. He succumbs to cholera, turning a vivid shade of this color.
What is blue?
500
This is the known as Third disease
What is Rubella?
500
In a foodborne outbreak in which pasta salad is the suspected food item that made people sick, which of the following ingredients is the most likely suspect:
cooked pasta
commercial mayonnaise
pickles