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Of Guns Gems Flashcards

1
Q

typhus plagued _____ armies

A

Napoleon’s

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2
Q

Typhoid fever humiliated the ____ Army during the _________ War.

A

American

Spanish-American

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3
Q

World War I is from _____ to _____

A

1914 – 1918

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4
Q

WW1 is widely associated with which diseases

A

Spanish flu
Influenza pandemic

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5
Q

The influenza epidemic that swept the world in ______ killed an estimated 50 million people.

A

1918

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6
Q

Spanish flu began with WW1

T/F

A

F

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7
Q

Revolution of medicine during WW1

A

Red cross
Emergency hospitals
Gauze masks

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8
Q

WW2 is widely associated with which diseases

A

Typhus
Tuberculosis
Cholera

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9
Q

Revolution of medicine during WW2

A

Vaccinations

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10
Q

Typhus is rarely fatal

T/F

A

F

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11
Q

Typhus, a bacterial disease that is spread by ______

A

body lice

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12
Q

Ww2 ranged from ____ to ____

A

1939-1945

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13
Q

Major diseases in Nigerian civil war was?

A

Malnutrition
Cholera
Dysentery
Malaria

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14
Q

Due to the famine during Nigerian civil war ,many resorted to eating ____
It was the regular eating of these
and poor cooking that led to the development of the disease _____.

A

crabs

Paragonimiasis

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15
Q

Revolution of medicine during the Nigerian civil war

A

NGOs

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16
Q

Biological warfare, also known as _____ warfare

A

germ

17
Q

_____ infected their arrows by dipping them in decomposing bodies or in blood mixed with manure as far back as ___ BC.

A

Scythian archers

400

18
Q

______ poisons water wells with human bodies, Tortona, Italy

A

Emperor Barbarossa

19
Q

______ catapult bodies of plague victims over the city walls of Caffa, Crimean Peninsula

A

Mongols

20
Q

Spanish mix wine with _______ to sell to their ____ foes, Naples, Italy

A

blood of leprosy patients

French

21
Q

1763 British distribute blankets from _____ to ______

A

smallpox patients

native americans

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