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- 4. A trade deal with China unleashed this disease which is considered to be one of the deadliest of the great pandemics. Italy was hit especially hard.
- 7. Charles IV of Spain launched history’s first global immunization campaign against this disease.
- 11. Which of these animals can spread Nipah, a deadly virus that struck in Malaysia in 1999?
- 12. Forensics experts recently used a tissue sample of HIV to estimate that HIV’s evolutionary history likely began in the 1920s. What nonhuman primate did the virus jump from?
- 13. Doctors called her the most dangerous woman in America. An immigrant who had worked as a cook, she was New York’s patient zero, passing the fever to 51 people. By year’s end, 20,000 had died. This woman was nicknamed by local newspapers as
- 15. This epidemic helped forge the American two-party system. In Philadelphia, as the death toll mounted, Federalists accused Democrats of a biological terror campaign.
- 16. AIDS has claimed an estimated 35 million people since it was first identified. In which city of the United States were the first cases reported in the scientific literature?
- 17. Deaths from the plague in the Middle Ages may have left some people with a gene that made them resistant to which other pandemic-causing disease?
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- 1. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases reported last week that a repurposed drug should now be considered the standard of care for some patients with COVID-19. What drug were they referring to?
- 2. In 2005, scientists reconstructed the complete 1918 virus that sparked the pandemic, bringing a historic virus back from extinction. They did it by obtaining frozen lung tissue from three victims of the pandemic. Two were US Army soldiers who died in 1918. What wintery place did the third tissue sample come from?
- 3. In 2000, athletes participating in an international triathlon held in Malaysia contracted ________ and returned to their home countries during the incubation period.
- 5. Which virus inspired the movie 'Contagion'?
- 6. The 1918 _____ pandemic is considered the deadliest in human history which claimed an estimated 50 million lives.
- 8. The first vaccine against smallpox was inspired by
- 9. In February 1692, in the Massachusetts village of Salem, eight young women accused their neighbors of witchcraft. Some historians blame the hysteria on this viral fever spread by insects and birds.
- 10. What was the first recorded spread of an infectious disease from one continent to another?
- 14. The bubonic plague, the infection spread during the Black Plague of the 14th century, was caused by a strain of what agent?