SMA News Puzzle (June 2021)

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  1. 2. Vaccine was the first vaccine to be developed against a contagious disease
  2. 9. Director-general of the World Health Organization
  3. 10. Refers to sound-induced dizziness
  4. 11. An antibody-based method to detect a specific protein in a sample
  5. 13. Bacteria which produces many small cysts that spread throughout the internal organs of the infected individual. The resultant disease is called Alveolar echinococcosis
  6. 14. Endogenous steroid and progestogen sex hormone involved in the menstrual cycle and pregnancy
  7. 15. The first vaccine for this was approved in 2006
  8. 16. Best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin
Down
  1. 1. A diagnostic test for tuberculosis screening
  2. 3. French chemist and microbiologist who helped to develop vaccines for anthrax and rabies
  3. 4. A genetic disorder in which the electrical activity within the heart is abnormal and most commonly involved gene is SCN5A which encodes the cardiac sodium channel
  4. 5. Prominent physician who also founded OCBC Bank
  5. 6. Are found in the red pulp of the spleen between the sinusoids and contain monocytes as a reserve
  6. 7. Also known as the hepatopancreatic duct
  7. 8. Known as "the founder of modern neurology" and associated with at least 15 medical eponyms
  8. 12. An antibiotic that is used to treat a wide variety of infections. It works by stopping the growth of certain bacteria and parasites