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Fact Test - Disease Flashcards

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What does W.H.O stand for?

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World Health Organisation

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What does Normadic mean?

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A society moving place to place.

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Who was the most famous Roman medical doctor?

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Galen

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What was an Asclepion?

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A place of healing.

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What is miasma?

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Miasma means bad or unhealthy air.

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When did the Black Death strike?

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1348

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What were the 2 different types of plague?

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Pneumonic plague and the bubonic plague.

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In what year did the Great Plague strike London?

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1665

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What caused the Great Plague?

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The bacteria in the rats blood which the fleas took and passed on to humans.

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Name two preventions people used to stop the plagues spreading?

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People were not allowed to leave the city and the victims lived in pest houses.

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What causes cholera?

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Bacteria in dirty water.

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12
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Why did industrial towns and cities have cholera outbreaks in the 1830s?

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Overcrowding

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Who discovered the cause of cholera in London?

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Filippo Pacini in 1854.

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Who discovered the cause of tuberculosis?

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Robert Koch

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What did Edwin Chadwick suggest caused cholera?

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Poverty which lead to poor living conditions.

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What was smallpox?

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Smallpox is a serious, contagious and sometimes fatal infectious disease caused by a virus called the variola virus. It is small pus-filled blisters that appear on the face and body of an infected person.

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Who discovered vaccinations?

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Edward Jenner developed the first successful smallpox vaccine in 1796.

18
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Which disease was Pasteur working on when he made his discovery?

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Penicillin/Chicken theory.

19
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What did Robert Koch discover?

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The German doctor founded bacteriology. (The study of bacteria)

He died of a heart attack.

20
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Who discovered penicillin?

A

Alexander Fleming in 1929.

21
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How did WW2 help the development of penicillin?

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Trials of the drug on humans were so successful that penicillin was used to treat infections suffered by wounded and ill soldiers during ww2.

22
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Where did the first HIV patient live?

A

Africa

23
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Is there a cure for HIV?

A

No.

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