Fact Test - Disease Flashcards
What does W.H.O stand for?
World Health Organisation
What does Normadic mean?
A society moving place to place.
Who was the most famous Roman medical doctor?
Galen
What was an Asclepion?
A place of healing.
What is miasma?
Miasma means bad or unhealthy air.
When did the Black Death strike?
1348
What were the 2 different types of plague?
Pneumonic plague and the bubonic plague.
In what year did the Great Plague strike London?
1665
What caused the Great Plague?
The bacteria in the rats blood which the fleas took and passed on to humans.
Name two preventions people used to stop the plagues spreading?
People were not allowed to leave the city and the victims lived in pest houses.
What causes cholera?
Bacteria in dirty water.
Why did industrial towns and cities have cholera outbreaks in the 1830s?
Overcrowding
Who discovered the cause of cholera in London?
Filippo Pacini in 1854.
Who discovered the cause of tuberculosis?
Robert Koch
What did Edwin Chadwick suggest caused cholera?
Poverty which lead to poor living conditions.
What was smallpox?
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.
Who discovered vaccinations?
Edward Jenner developed the first successful smallpox vaccine in 1796.
Which disease was Pasteur working on when he made his discovery?
Penicillin/Chicken theory.
What did Robert Koch discover?
The German doctor founded bacteriology. (The study of bacteria)
He died of a heart attack.
Who discovered penicillin?
Alexander Fleming in 1929.
How did WW2 help the development of penicillin?
Trials of the drug on humans were so successful that penicillin was used to treat infections suffered by wounded and ill soldiers during ww2.
Where did the first HIV patient live?
Africa
Is there a cure for HIV?
No.
