Disease Detectives History and Organizations

Dr. John Snow discovered the source of a bad outbreak of this disease...

• The Black Plague

• Ebola

• Cholera

• Typhoid fever

Who is known as the father of Epidemiology?

• Dr. Meredith Gray

• Dr. John Snow

• Albert Einstein

• Dr. Jonas Salk

The source of the 1854 outbreak of Cholera in London was determined to be...

• contaminated beer from the brewery

• a bad crop of lettuce

• a cloud of bad air over the town

• a contaminated water pump

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

This disease is also known as the "Black Death"

• cholera

• ebola

• bubonic plague

• spanish flu

This disease caused a major pandemic during the time of World War One

• Cholera

• Bubonic Plague

• Spanish Flu

• Ebola

Who was the father of vital statistics and surveillance -1800

• John Gaunt

• John Snow

• William Farr

• Hippocrates

He designed the first human experiment with controls while studying the treatment of scurvy by eating citrus fruit- 1740s

• Robert Koch

• James Lind

• Louis Pasteur

• Edward Jenner

He recognized the bacterial cause of anthrax and developed a vaccine for it -1880s

• Louis Pasteur

• Edward Jenner

• James Lind

• Robert Koch

He developed the first vaccine using cow pox to inoculate against small pox - 1790s

• John Gaunt

• Robert Koch

• Louis Pasteur

• Edward Jenner

The largest field trial of a vaccine was conducted in 1954 using

• polio vaccine

• small pox vaccine

• Ebola vaccine

• measles vaccine