Communicable Diseases

Question 1

Plague

Answer 1

Fall of Roman Empire?
Bacterial, flea bite, rats
Black death 1334—60% of Europe wiped out.
Sped economic, social and tech development
Modern plague 1860 China
10 million deaths
Recent; India early 20th, Vietnam 60s and 70s

Question 2

Smallpox

Answer 2

no treatment, only vaccination
now eradicated, last US case 1949
Somalia ‘77

Question 3

Polio

Answer 3

Crippling and deadly, virus
Vaccine
Eradicated in US but still in world

Question 4

Hep B

Answer 4

Vaccine
Contagious liver disease
Spreads thru blood or body fluids
Birth, bite, touching open sores, sharing personal items, food chewed, needles, transfusions, sex,

Question 5

HIV/AIDS

Answer 5

1,201,100 13+ have it
50,000 new infections/year
MSM men 78% of new infections
White MSM largest number of new cases
311,087 MSM have died
Black women and men largest of hetero group