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Name the Virus - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 76,486 times
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| Hint | Disease | % Correct |
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| Virus whose first major outbreak started in December 2019 in Wuhan, China | Covid-19 | 99%
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| Uncurable STD that was almost always fatal until the invention of the "cocktail" | HIV | 90%
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| Hemorrhagic fever that broke out in West Africa in 2014 | Ebola | 83%
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| Nickname of the flu that killed about 3% of the world's population in 1918–19 | {Spanish} Flu | 78%
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| Caused by animal bites, it is nearly always fatal unless quickly treated by a vaccine | Rabies | 77%
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| Nearly everybody over the age of 30 had it as a child. As an adult, it can re-emerge as shingles. | Chicken Pox | 74%
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| Jonas Salk created the vaccine for this paralytic disease in 1955. It may be eradicated by the end of the decade. | Polio | 72%
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| Causes cold sores | Herpes simplex | 70%
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| The only infectious disease to be eliminated in humans | Smallpox | 69%
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| Group of five unrelated viruses (A, B, C, D, and E) which cause liver problems | Hepatitis | 67%
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| This childhood illness was once nearly eradicated in the first world due to vaccines, but is having a small resurgence. | Measles | 65%
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| Another mosquito-borne tropical virus. Far less common than the above, it has a much higher mortality rate (about 15%). | {Yellow} Fever | 65%
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| Also called H5N1, this virus has caused much worry but not much loss of life | {Bird} Flu | 64%
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| Virus similar to the above which killed 299 people in Hong Kong in the early 2000s | SARS | 62%
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| Causes painful swelling of the salivary glands | Mumps | 56%
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| Along with the two above, this virus is prevented by the MMR vaccine | Rubella | 49%
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| STD that is usually benign but can cause warts and also cervical cancer. At least 25% of adults are infected. | HPV | 42%
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| Virus that can cause babies to be born with small heads | Zika | 42%
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| Mosquito-borne tropical virus that strikes at least 50 million people yearly, killing about 25,000 | {Dengue} Fever | 41%
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| Mosquito-borne infection named for a river in Africa | West Nile | 31%
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