DISEASE MUSEUM
Across
- 2. a rare but fatal disease caused by prions
- 4. stomach bacterium that causes most gastric ulcers
- 6. a severe, often fatal viral hemorrhagic fever, caused by the Marburg or Ravn viruses, which are related to Ebola
- 8. a zoonotic virus that causes Lassa fever—a viral hemorrhagic disease that is mainly found in West Africa.
- 10. a small virus that infects liver cells and causes inflammation
- 11. a bacterial infection caused by gram-negative salmonella bacteria, transmitted from contaminated poultry, eggs, or unpasteurized milk
- 12. cyclospora cayetanesis was initially misidentified as a ______ because of its spherical shape under the microscope.
- 15. a bacterial infection caused by the bite of an infected tick carrying borrelia bacteria
- 18. an enveloped, positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus that infects lung epithelial cells, causing severe acute respiratory syndrome
- 20. a single-stranded RNA virus from the Togaviridae family that causes chikungunya
- 21. Dr. John Bartlett used a ____ model to prove the cause was actually a toxin-producing bacterium
- 22. Nipah virus is a ____ virus, usually transmitted from animals to humans.
Down
- 1. a bacterium commonly found in natural water
- 3. Early on, researchers hypothesized that the disease might be caused by a __ because of similarities in how AIDS affected the immune system.
- 5. the physician who mapped cholera cases in London and helped found modern epidemiology
- 7. a mosquito-borne flavivirus primarily transmitted by Culex mosquitoes, often causing asymptomatic infections, but sometimes leading to fever, headaches, and severe neurological symptoms like encephalitis or meningitis.
- 9. a bacteria called enterococci becomes resistant to the antibiotic vancomycin
- 13. Virus an illness transmitted to humans through the bite of infected mosquitoes
- 14. an illness caused by a virus spread by rodents
- 16. a strain of Staphylococcus aureus that is resistant to most antibiotics
- 17. toxin the key virulence factor responsible for endothelial damage in Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome is ___
- 19. when was Ebola first recognized?