Cholera and Bacterial Infections.

Question 1

Cholera is what?

Answer 1

an infectious disease

Question 2

How did Cholera spread?

Answer 2

by water

Question 3

What did human waste also carry?

Answer 3

Typhoid and Dysentery

Question 4

What are symptoms of Cholera?

Answer 4

Diarrhoea, dehydration, grey skin, death

Question 5

What is Epidemiology?

Answer 5

Using evidence from maps to see how disease is being transmitted, how the disease is moving. plotting information on a map.

Question 6

What is the name for disease?

Answer 6

pathogen’s

Question 7

What does Pathogen’s mean?

Answer 7

disease

Question 8

What does transmitted mean?

Answer 8

spreads

Question 9

What does Miasma mean?

Answer 9

disease spread by bad air.

Question 10

what’s the word for bad air? the smell was bad in the air.

Answer 10

Miasma

Question 11

Who disputed the Miasma {spread by bad air) theory of Cholera

Answer 11

john snow

Question 12

what ways can disease (pathogen’s) be spread (transmitted)?

Answer 12

Water, animals, body fluids, food, airborne.

Question 13

Why did the workers at the brewery not catch Chlolera?

Answer 13

They drank beer not water.

Question 14

How is Cholera caused?

Answer 14

By eating food or drinking water contaminated with a bacterium called VIBRIO Cholera