P1. Earliest Known Infectious Diseases. Flashcards
represent the first recorded epidemic
Plague/ Pestilence
- around 1900 BC
- near the end of the Trojan War
- Greek army was decimated by an epidemic of what is thought to have been…
PLAGUE
Egyptian Scroll that contains the list of diseases and treatments.
Eber Papyrus (1500 BC)
occured in China in 1122 BC
SMALLPOX
Epidemics of plague occurred in:
1. Rome?
2. Greece?
- 790, 710, 640 BC
- 430 BC
the 3 MOST COMMON FORMS of PLAGUE:
- Bubonic
- Septicemic
- Pneumonic
- swollen inguinal lymph glands on a person infected w/ the ____.
- swollen lymph glands are termed ____.
- BUBOES is the Greek word for ____.
- Swollen gland: ____.
- BUBONIC plague
- Buboes
- Groin
- Bubo
resulted from NECROSIS.
SEPTICEMIC plague.
the mode of transmission of this plague is through inhalation or the respiratory tract.
PNEUMONIC plague.
tho PULMONARY sabi ni Ma’am sa Synch class.
Syphilis is caused by the bacterium?
TREPONEMA PALLIDUM
SYPHILIS is a ____ TRASMITTED DISEASE.
SEXUALLY
Syphilis first appeared in this continent in year…
Europe… 1493…
Syphilis was carried to Europe by Native Americans who were brought to Portugal by ____.
Christopher Columbus.
Syphilis is also known as the ff.:
- Neopolitan disease
- French/ Spanish disease
- French pox
- Spanish, German, Polish, & Turkish pocks