Epidemiology

Question 1

Violent contractions of the larynx and respiratory muscles with accompanying panic and related symptoms, induced by drinking, are known as hydrophobia. Hydrophobia is itself a historical name for what viral and usually fatal zoonotic disease, during the course of which these symptoms often appear?

Answer 1

Rabies

Question 2

The infectious disease known as whooping cough is known by what other name (which it shares with the bacterium that causes it)?

Answer 2

Pertussis

Question 3

Another name for this bacterial disease is lockjaw, one of it symptoms.

Answer 3

Tetanus

Question 4

What is the name of the infection, shared with its namesake virus, that was first identified as a disease distinct from other disorders such as scarlet fever in 1814 by George de Maton, a German physician?

Answer 4

Rubella

Question 5

British pathologist Michael Anthony Epstein is credited with discovering the virus (of the family Herpesviridae and genus Lymphocryptovirus) that is associated with several human cancers and causes infectious mononucleosis. He made this discovery along with B.G. Achong and what Irish-born virologist?

Answer 5

Yvonne Barr