Disease and infection

Question 1

Who had discovered the benefits of vaccination in the 18th century?

Answer 1

Edward Jenner

Question 2

What did people believe about disease before Pasteur?

Answer 2

Spontaneous generation and miasma

Question 3

What was the name and date of Pasteur’s discovery in the beer factory?

Answer 3

Germ theory - 1861

Question 4

What discovery made the identification of germs in unsterilized water possible?

Answer 4

Pasteurization

Question 5

What did Pasteur’s work add to Jenners?

Answer 5

connected germs to disease

Question 6

Name two diseases Pasteur developed vaccines for

Answer 6

Chicken cholera

Anthrax

Question 7

Where was Koch from?

Answer 7

Germany

Question 8

What vaccinations did Koch create?

Answer 8

Tuberculosis

Question 9

What did Koch do to the germs to make the easier to see through a microscope?

Answer 9

staining

Question 10

How did Koch use photographic technology to his advantage?

Answer 10

….

Question 11

What was the Magic Bullet?

Answer 11

…

Question 12

WHat was the name and number of the first magic bullet?

Answer 12

Salvarson 606

Question 13

What disease did salvarson 606 attack?

Answer 13

Syphilis

Question 14

Who developed the second magic bullet?

Answer 14

Gerhardt Domaghe

Question 15

What was the name of the second magic bullet?

Answer 15

Prontosil

Question 16

Where did Fleming discover Penicillin?

Answer 16

St. Marys Hospital in London

Question 17

Where did the mould on the petri dish come from?

Answer 17

From the beer factory up the hill

Question 18

How did Fleming help with the development of penicillin as a useful drug?

Answer 18

He discovered that it was an anti biotic and wrote a paper about it

Question 19

Where did Florey and Chain develop the drug further?

Answer 19

Oxford University

Question 20

Who helped them mass produce the drug but never won the Nobel Prize?

Answer 20

Norman Heatley

Question 21

Which event helped the development of penicillin?

Answer 21

WWI

Question 22

Which country funded the development of penicillin?

Answer 22

USA

Question 23

How many soldiers were potentially saved by penicillin?

Answer 23

250 000

Question 24

When was compulsory vaccination for smallpox introduced?

Answer 24

1852 in Britain