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Myths about infectious disease - Multiple choice
Choose the correct answer for each question. The incorrect options are all based on myths many people actually believed (or still do) about infectious disease.
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Last updated: February 1, 2021
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1. What causes plague?
A rank vapour from decaying matter called 'miasma'
Sinfulness
Jews
The bacterium Yersinia pestis
2. How is plague spread?
Fleas carry the plague, and the rats carry the fleas. People thought cats and dogs caused plague, and were paid bounties for killing them. This caused rat numbers to shoot up and worsen the plague.
Via miasma through the air
Via mangey cats and dogs
Via flea bites
Via rat bites
3. What is the best way to treat plague?
The other treatments were all widely used throughout Black Death, and only did more harm
Bloodletting the buboes
Whipping yourself and praying
Barricading sufferers in their homes
Antibiotics
4. How is Cholera spread?
John Snow discerned Cholera was water-borne in the 1850s
Breathing polluted air
Consuming contaminated water
5. Which of these facts about malaria is true?
If you've had malaria before, you become immune to it
Malaria is only a problem in Africa
Children are at low risk from malaria
The global death rate of malaria is less than 1%
6. Which of these facts about Tuberculosis (TB) is true?
TB is very rare nowadays
TB can be hereditary
You can only catch TB from prolonged close contact with someone who has it
TB only affects the lungs
7. Which of these facts about flu is true?
Flu is a worse form of the common cold
There are over a dozen species of flu virus
Cold weather can cause flu
Antibiotics can treat flu
8. What was the origin of the Spanish flu?
Nobody knows for certain but it is mostly believed to have come from animals bred at a military base in Fort Riley
It originated in Spain
It was caused by the First World War
It came from a pig/chicken farm in Kansas
9. Which of these facts about anthrax is true?
Anthrax is highly contagious
Anthrax can be caught from infected animals
A tiny amount of anthrax could wipe out a whole town
10. How is HIV spread?
Sexual intercourse or blood transfusion
Touching or kissing
Mosquitoes
Surface contact
11. Which of these facts about HIV is true?
HIV has highly visible symptoms
Only gay men can get HIV
It's possible for HIV positive parents to give birth to a a HIV negative child
Having sex with a virgin cures HIV
12. How is zika virus most commonly spread?
Contaminated water
Contaminated fruit
Aedes Mosquito bites
13. Which of these facts about polio is true?
Polio cannot be cured
Polio is something you are born with
Only children can contract polio
Polio is endemic in 2 continents
14. Which of these facts about leprosy/Hansen's Disease is true?
Leprosy is very rare nowadays
Leprosy is fully curable
Leprosy causes fingers and toes to fall off
Leprosy is highly contagious through casual contact
15. Which of these is a real viral disease?
Kissing disease is another name for Mononucleosis
Tuxissa
Cooties
Kissing disease
Man flu
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2 Comments
CardinalSin
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Level 80
Feb 1, 2021
The pneumonic form of the plague is spread by droplets - therefore "through the air" is a correct answer. Also catching malaria does afford some degree of immunity, which is why it is generally so much more serious in children (8% of child deaths globally caused by malaria). I think that it is unfair to mark these two answers "wrong".
HelveticaBold
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Level 72
Feb 1, 2021
Thanks I'll make the plague one clearer, but it is a common misconception that you automatically become fully immune to malaria if you've had it once which is not the case.
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