Epidemics

Question 1

The Father of Medicine and the First Epidemiologist used epidemiology principles to understand disease
occurrence

Answer 1

HIPPOCRATES (460-377 BC)

Question 2

The Father of Medicine and the First Epidemiologist used epidemiology principles to understand disease
occurrence

Answer 2

HIPPOCRATES (460-377 BC)

Question 3

• first to recognize and document that different diseases occurred in different places under different conditions
  -Contributed the idea of observation and the terms “ epidemic ” and “ endemic ”

Answer 3

HIPPOCRATES (460-377 BC)

Question 4

normal occurrence of disease in a population

Answer 4

ENDEMIC

Question 5

Upper end of that normal range

Answer 5

Epidemic threshold

Question 6

refers to a disease or condition that affects a greater than expected number of individuals within a population,
community, or region at the same time.

Answer 6

EPIDEMIC

Question 7

geographically widespread

Answer 7

geographically widespread

Question 8

Developed a vaccine against small pox using cow pox

Answer 8

Edward Jenner

Question 9

described the association between dirty water and cholera

Answer 9

John Snow

Question 10

• Described the association between childbed fever, a life- threatening infection contracted by a woman during or shortly after childbirth, and physicians’ unclean hands
  -discovered that handwashing standards in obstetrical clinics could reduce the incidence of puerperal fever

Answer 10

Ignaz Semmelweis

Question 11

Conducted an experiment showing that scurvy can be treated
and prevented with limes, lemons and oranges

Answer 11

James Lind

Question 12

proved that pellagra is not infectious but nutritional in origin
and could be prevented by increasing amount of animal
products in the diet.

Answer 12

Joseph Goldberger