2. Disease

Question 0

Discovery of virus date

Answer 0

1892 - Louis Pasteur (Also disproved spontaneous generation)

Question 1

Discovery of bacteria date

Answer 1

1676 - Anthony Leeuwenhoek

Question 2

Discovery of Anitbiotics

Answer 2

Alexander Fleming - penicillin - 1928

Question 3

Endemic definition

Answer 3

An area where a particular disease is found - common

regularly found among a particular people or in a particular region

Question 4

Epidemic definition

Answer 4

A widespread occurence of a particular disease found in a particular place at a particular time

Question 5

Pandemic Definition

Answer 5

Disease prevalent over a whole country or the world.

Question 6

Contagious definition

Answer 6

Able to spread disease from one organism to another, typically from direct contact

Question 7

Infectious definition

Answer 7

Able to be transmitted from one organism to another in an environment

Question 8

Pathoginecity definition

Answer 8

Ability of an organism to cause disease, a genetic component of the pathogen that can do this

Question 9

Virulence definition

Answer 9

The degree of pathoginecity based on fatality rates and other statistics etc.

Question 10

Direct contact examples

Answer 10

Touching, kissing, sexual intercourse

Question 11

Indirect contact examples:

Answer 11

Eating utensils, touching something someone who is infected has touched before, money, syringes, toys etc.

Question 12

Vehicle transmission examples:

Answer 12

Air, blood, water, food, intravenous fluid (drugs)

Question 13

Animal Vectors examples:

Answer 13

Mosquitoes, fleas, mammals