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Disease spread Flashcards

1
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True or false- paleolithic is before than neolithic

A

True

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2
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What is life expectancy of paleolithic and neolithic?

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paleolithic: 33
neolithic: 29

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3
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Explain difference of paleolithic + neolithic age.

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in neolithic:

  • more people live in settlement
  • > food
  • > climate change
  • > agriculture
  • > trade
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4
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What is disease in neolithic from?

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  • animal
  • farming
  • settlement
  • parasite
  • nutritional imbalance
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5
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What disease caused by animals in neolithic time?

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Cattle : small pox
pig + duck: influenza
horse: rhinovirus
dog + cattle: measles

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6
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What disease caused by farming practice in neolithic time?

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polio (water) + whooping cough

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7
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What disease caused by settlements in neolithic time?

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bacteria + worm + fungi

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8
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What disease caused by parasite in neolithic time?

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tape worm + malaria

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9
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What disease caused by nutritional imbalance in neolithic time?

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no protein in diet= nutritional imbalance like khwashikor.

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10
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What were living conditions in 3000 BC - 476 BC?

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unhygenic in empire (more settlement)

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11
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What diseases caused in empire?

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epidemic

insect: plague + malaria
zoonoses: measles + chicken pox

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12
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True or false- some people got immunity due to disease

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true

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13
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What are diseases in most civilized empire?

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  • child birth
  • infant mortality
  • alcohol
  • sexually transmitted disease
  • cancer
  • cholera
  • war
  • epidemic
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14
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What is the epidemic in 3000 BC -476 BC?

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Malaria + plague

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15
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True or false- plague came to greek via war

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True- war with europe

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16
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What happened in 476 AD?

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Medieval- plague from egypt to europe to asia to africa

17
Q

True or false- 10 million died from plague

A

false- 20

18
Q

What happened in 1493 -1789?

A

New world discovered

19
Q

What did new world get from europe?

A

Main:

  • Swine flu
  • small pox

Other:

  • measles
  • influenza
  • malaria
  • yellow fever
20
Q

What did europe get from new world?

A

Syphilis- great pox

21
Q

What disease occured in russia during contemporary age?

A

Typhus

22
Q

What was a pandemic in 1800 italy?

A

Cholera

23
Q

When did spanish flu affect people?

A

after great war

24
Q

True or false- affluence caused rickets + lung disease

A

false- industrial revolution

25
Q

What were diseases of affluence?

A
  • cancer
  • obesity
  • chd
  • hypertension
  • diabetes
26
Q

True or false- in 1960 book of infection disease was closed

A

false

27
Q

What are 2 diseases we cant get rid of?

A

tuberculosis & leprosy

28
Q

Whats an alternate name to tuberculosis?

A

white plague

29
Q

True or false- paleolithic time had tuberculosis

A

false- neolithic

30
Q

Who made the first tuberculosis antibiotic and when?

A

Semen A waksman- 1944

31
Q

Where did leprosy originate?

A

East africa

32
Q

What are the diseases of 21st century?

A

HIV, hepatitis, helicobacter pylori, ebola, dengue and hanta

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