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Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 9mins
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
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
The Spanish Flu (H1N1) pandemic was from
1918-1920
1816-1819
1966-1969
1664-1666
The modern H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic was in
2001
1929
1999
2009
The HIV (AIDS) epidemic started in the
1980s
1990s
1950s
2000s
He published a descriptive field study in 1920 showing the dietary origin of pellagra due to lack of niacin (vitamin B3)
Edward Sydenstricker
John Gaunt
Joseph Goldberger
Robert Koch
He formulated a set of postulates or standards to identify organisms that cause infectious diseases - 1843-1910
Edward Jenner
Robert Koch
William Farr
James Lind
The organization that does epidemiology for the United States is
the CDC
the WHO
the EPA
the FDA
The organization that does epidemiology world-wide and manages pandemics is
the CDC
the WHO
the FDA
the EPA
The disease, called "The Black Death" that had several devastating epidemics in the period of 1340-1400 which killed about a third of the population of Europe was
typhoid
typhus
leprosy
bubonic plague
Small pox was declared to be eradicated worldwide in
1969
1980
1935
2002
When was Typhoid Mary spreading typhoid to people in the New York City area?
early 1800s
early 1900s
1930s
1750s
