History of Pandemics Quiz
A pandemic is a/an
vaccine for a disease
animal that carries a disease
infectious disease that spreads worldwide
person infected with a lethal disease
Zoonoses are
disease bearing insects
pandemics that come about with the domestication of animals
statistic charts that map the spread of pandemics
scientists who study animal diseases
The typhoid fever of the Peloponnesian war stopped spreading because of its
mild symptoms
lack of gene mutation
small mortality rate
extreme virulence
The Antonine Plague was most likely
influenza
smallpox
tuberculosis
SARS
During the secod outbreak of the Antonine Plague
5 people died a day in Rome
everyone in Rome died
5,000 people died a day in Rome
every child was killed
The first outbreak of the bubonic plague was in the
Plague of Justinian
reign of Henry VIII in England
years B.C.
Plague of Aphrodite
The bubonic plague returned 800 years later and killed
everyone in the Holy Roman Empire
a quarter of Europe's domestic animals
a quarter of Europe's population in the Black Death
half of France's population in the Dark Days Death
The world has seen how many cholera outbreaks
seven
one
eleven
twenty-one (one per century)
In which three cities did the Spanish influenza originate?
Paris, London, Geneva
Hong Kong, Venice, New York
Brest, Boston, Freetown
Madrid, Cairo, Los Angeles
For the Avian Flu to become a pandemic it has to become
higly lethal and highly contagious to humans
invincible to all vaccines
treatable
an air-borne disease
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