Pathology Quiz Practice

Match the disease with it's vector.

• Bubonic Plague

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• African Sleeping Sickness

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• Malaria

• 
• Lyme Disease

• 
• Typhus

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A ________ is anything that can cause disease.

MER-1 was a virus that caused a ​​ (a)   in the medical thriller Contagion.

A flu ​ (b)   caused a local school to shut down.

Since malaria is ​ (c)   to Africa, you should get a vaccine before travelling there.

• pandemic
• epidemic
• endemic

The health of the whole world is monitored by the ​ (a)  

The health of the USA is monitored by the ​ (b)   and ​ (c)  

The health of the great State of Michigan is monitored by the ​ (d)  

The health of our county is controlled by the ​ (e)  

• WHO
• CDC
• NIH
• MDHHS
• BCHD

Match the following

• botulism

  dysentery

• Food or Water Borne

• HIV & Hepatitis B/C

• Vector Borne or Zoonotic

• Covid-19

  Flu

• Sexually Transmitted

• Chlamydia

  Syphilis

• Blood Borne

• Rabies

  Lyme Disease

• Airborne

Reorder the following steps in PATHOGENESIS

• damage host tissues

• evade the host's immune system

• contact the host

• colonize the host

• infect the host

The measure of how likely the microorganism can cause disease is called:

• Ro factor

• infectious

• virulence

• pathology

Which disease below is INFECTIOUS?

• ALLERGIES

• CHICKENPOX

• CANCER

• ALZHEIMER'S

The "Father of Epidemiology" is ​ (a)  

​ (b)   discovered penicillin by accident.

Antiseptics were first invented & promoted by ​ (c)   .

​ (d)   only charged $1 for his polio vaccine.

The first rabies vaccine was developed by ​ (e)   .

• John Snow
• Alexander Fleming
• Joseph Lister
• Jonas Salk
• Louis Pasteur

The ____ theory states that microorganisms cause disease.