Public Health History
This federal agency was established in 1946 in Atlanta as the Communicable Disease Center
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
SARS and MERS are both what kind of virus?
Coronavirus
Named for its founder, this private research university in Baltimore, Maryland has the number-one ranked public health program in America, according to U.S. News.
Johns Hopkins
This is a vaporous exhalation once believed to cause disease.
Miasma
A chap named Peter got his name on this tallest mountain in Washington state.
Rainier
The first clinical use of this revolutionary antibiotic drug occurred in 1941.
Penicillin
The vaccine for measles prevention is often called the MMR vaccine because it also prevents the mumps and this other disease.
Rubella
What American virologist created one of the earliest successful vaccines for polio, which was officially released in 1955? In 1963 he started his namesake Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, CA.
Jonas Salk
COVID-19 revived the near obsolete Drinker Tank, popular polio-era negative pressure ventilators better known by this metallic name.
Iron Lung
Before it became a state, the territory now known as Washington was called this in the English language.
Columbia
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This public health innovation, first implemented in the early 20th century, significantly reduced the incidence of waterborne diseases like cholera and typhoid.
Water chlorination
After controversially having herself and her son Paul inoculated in 1768, Catherine the Great supported the idea of a widespread inoculation campaign throughout the Russian Empire against this disease.
Smallpox
In 1951, the cancer cells she unknowingly provided gave rise to the first "immortal" line of human cells, one of the most important in medical research.
Henrietta Lacks
This breakthrough medical invention in 1816 revolutionized the diagnosis of chest infections and other internal disorders.
The stethoscope
In this year, Washington was the first state in the United States to legalize recreational marijuana.
2012
In 1947, the World Health Organization (WHO) established the first-ever of this kind of service, with information transmitted via telex.
Global disease tracking
Ervebo is the brand name of a vaccine for prevention of this viral hemorrhagic fever that affects humans and other primates.
Ebola
This landmark study, published in 1950 by Richard Doll and A. Bradford Hill, established the connection between smoking and lung cancer.
The British Doctors' Study
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Despite being referred to as the "Spanish flu", the first documented case of the 1918 influenza pandemic originated in this state.
Kansas
This was designatied as the Washington State Fish in 1969.
What is Steelhead Trout
This organization formed in 1798 to care for sick and injured sailors was the nation's first public health agency, and a precursor to the United States Public Health Service.
The Marine Hospital Service (MHS)
In August 2022, the first case of this in the U.S. in decades was reported, bringing renewed attention to the importance of global vaccine coverage.
(Paralytic) Polio
This Hungarian physician is hailed as the "savior of mothers" for his pioneering work in hand hygiene and infection control.
Ignaz Semmelweis
The acronym MAVEN stands for this, a reference to the state where it originated.
Massachusetts Virtual Epidemiology Network
In 1992 this Democrat became the first female U.S. senator from Washington state.
Patty Murray