Quiz on Public Health and Intro to Disease
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1. What is public health?
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2. The ancient Greeks believed...
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3. The Romans pretty much followed the Greek ideas about health.
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4. In the Middle Ages in Europe, there was a decrease in ___ and an increase in ___
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5. During the Renaissance, an increase in ____ led to epidemics of infectious disease
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6. Edward Jenner is credited with creating the first
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7. Urbanization and the Industrial Revolution saw an increase in disease due to
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8. In the late 1800's and early 1900's, there was a shift to clean water, regular trash pick up, street cleaning, and local health departments. this was called the
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9. When Dr. Snow traced the source of the Cholera epidemic to the water pump, he introduced what would later be the practices of
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10. Which organization in the US works through research, education, and action to improve public health?
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11. Is a virus a living thing?
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12. Can you kill a virus with an antibiotic?
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13. Which is the largest?
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14. Penicillin is
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15. Which of the following could be cured with an antibiotic?
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16. Which cell "eats" infecting bacteria and viruses?
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17. When your body recognizes a pathogen invader, whether the actual pathogen or a modified pathogen in a vaccine, it produces _______ to block the pathogen from being able to make you sick.
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18. Which of the following would you find in both a procaryotic pathogen and a eukaryotic pathogen?
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19. Fungi get their nutrients from
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20. Fungi are responsible for all of the following diseases except
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21. A fungal infection is usually treated with
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22. Protists all live in
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22. Malaria is a disease caused by a protist that is transmitted by what vector?
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23. What is the main way people get protist infections?
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24. What exactly is a prion?
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25. How do you get a prion disease?
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26. How do you cure a prion disease?
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27. How do you correctly pronounced prion, as in the brain protein? ANSWER: It turns out that, while both pronunciation are used for the word, the brain protein is pronounced pree-on, so put "pree-on" as your answer. "Pry-on" is how you pronounce the prion bird, any of several small petrels (genus Pachyptila of the family Procellariidae, seagull-ish birds) of the southern hemisphere that are bluish gray above and white below.
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