Epidemic and Pandemic Ultimate Review

What war most likely contributed to the spread of the Spanish flu?

An animal or insect which can transmit a disease.

What new epidemic spreads through western Africa in 2014...and now in 2018?

What is the basis for the Spanish flu pandemic?

Which disease theory did people first believe caused diseases like malaria and cholera?

Who first discovered that bacteria can cause disease?

What vector is responsible for the major H5N1 outbreak?

What is the name of the epidemiologist who discovered cholera's real origin?

Epidemiology is the study of what?

Name the three parts of the epidemiological triad.

By sheer numbers over time, which pandemic is considered the most deadly?

By number dead within a short time, what pandemic is the worst?

Robert Koch theorized that certain diseases are caused by certain viruses/bacteria.

Close contact with a dead person, which spread ebola, was which part of the epidemio triad?

Who built on previous work and discovered that certain bacteria caused certain diseases?

How did the potato blight affect Ireland?

What occurs when a disease moves from being in an animal to occuring in humans?

A vaccine is a strong disease formula given to a potential human agent.

What is the most commonly blamed initial vector for SARS?

What plant disease severely impacted the diet of people living in Ireland in the 1840s-1850s?

What is it called when your body is able to recognise and deal effectively with disease?

How did the coffee rust fungus change British society?

What was the first stage of disease theory?

What is it called when a medicine no longer cures a bacterial infection?

The human body is usually what part of the epidemio triad?

What vector transmits lyme disease to humans?

What are nonliving organisms which need a host in order to survive?

Most of what is actually not harmful and can help humans thrive.

The first vaccine was created for what disease?

The inventor of penicillin was whom?

The Spanish flu most likely began in what country?

By what century did the world finally recover to its pre-Black Death population count?

What is it called when a disease spreads worldwide to several locations?

The cholera bacterium is what part of the epidemio triad?

Which vector is the most deadly, with many diseases it can spread, such as dengue fever?

What was the final stage of disease theory?

Historically, what pandemic has even claimed the lives of ruling kings/queens?

White blood cells which attack diseases are known as what?

What vector is usually responsible for avian flu in humans?

What is it called when a disease plagues a certain region above the normal amount?

What is the body’s first, and most critical, defense system against invading disease?

What is it called when a disease is at its normal level in society?

Who is known as the father of vaccines?

Louis Pasteur theorized that all diseases are caused by the same bacteria.

What new world pandemic is first diagnosed in 1981?