DISEASE MUSEUM

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