Epidemiology Trivia
From John Snow's water pump to the Spanish Flu, see if you have the viral knowledge to survive the next great pandemic without losing your mind.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
During London's 1854 cholera outbreak, physician John Snow famously halted the spread of the disease by requesting the removal of the handle from a what?
Water pump
Officially declared gone by the WHO in 1980, what is the only human disease to have been completely eradicated through global vaccination efforts?
Smallpox
Which animals are strongly implicated by epidemiologists as the natural reservoir for the Ebola virus, often carrying it without showing symptoms?
Fruit bats
Mary Mallon, an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever, was released from her first quarantine in 1910 under the condition that she never return to what specific profession?
Cook
Vaccines that aim to avert a disease's onset by building immunity before exposure occur at what foundational level of disease prevention?
Primary prevention