History
Considered the founder of epidemiology, this 19th century English doctor identified water as the source of cholera
Who is John Snow?
This medical drama is the longest running scripted primetime show on ABC
What is Grey's Anatomy?
Affecting more than 500 million people worldwide, this 1918 pandemic was named after this country due to widespread reporting of cases there
What is Spain?
The only eradicated disease in humans, the last known case was in 1977
What is smallpox?
The shortest day of the year, usually occurs on December 21st
What is the Winter Solstice?
In 1965, this English epidemiologist pioneered causal criteria that bear his name
Who is Austin Bradford Hill?
This 2007 film based on the longest running American sitcom has the US EPA encapsulate the town in a giant dome after environmental pollution in a nearby lake
What is The Simpsons Movie?
The main sites of the Ebola pandemic from 2014 to 2016
What is Guinea, Sierra Leone, or Liberia?
Marco Polo's Silk Road to China transported this deadly disease to Europe
What is the bubonic plague/the Black Death?
Also known as Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, and St. Nicholas
Who is Santa Claus?
This Greek physician, known as the father of medicine, was the first to distinguish between "endemic" and "epidemic".
Who is Hippocrates?
This EPA inspector in the popular 1984 paranormal activity movie tells the crew that they are facing environmental violations for their equipment
What is Ghostbusters?
The last continent that has endemic cases of polio
What is Asia?
Tonic water with quinine can be used as treatment for this mosquito transmitted disease
What is malaria?
This seven day festival was first celebrated in 1966 as an alternative to Christmas
What is Kwanzaa?
This theory of medicine believed that there were four fluid systems of the body: blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile
What are the humors?
This NBC TV show that ran from 2009 to 2014 had an episode titled "Epidemiology" in which the characters turn into zombies after eating bad taco meat
What is Community?
The first state to establish a Health Department, named after a French King
What is Louisiana?
Considered the most dangerous woman in America at the time, Mary Mallon infected 51 people with this disease
What is typhoid?
A Christian feast day held on January 6th
What is Three King's Day/Epiphany?
This theory of medicine believed that diseases were spread by "bad air"
What is the miasma theory?
This 2011 film starring Gwyneth Paltrow consulted expert epidemiologists to better understand disease transmission worldwide
What is Contagion?
In 1887, this Midwestern river was reversed due to sewage contamination of the drinking water supply
What is the Chicago River?
Called the "romantic disease," this disease crippled the spine of the Hunchback of Notre Dame
What is tuberculosis?
This half-goat half-demon punishes misbehaving children according to Central European tradition
Who is Krampus?