How many people are estimated to have died from the Spanish Flu?
10 Million
20 Million
30 Million
50 Million
What percentage of the earths population was affected by the Spanish Flu?
One eighth
One sixth
One quarter
One third
Where was the first case of AIDS reported?
Los Angeles
San Francisco
New York
Miami
Which nonhuman primate is HIV thought to have originated in?
Macaques
Chimpanzees
Bonobos
Baboons
Used to treat HIV, how do protease inhibitors work?
They interfere with an enzyme that breaks down HIV proteins
They block a viral enzyme that inserts the viral genome into the host cell
They neutralise HIV
They seek out and destroy HIV virus
The Bubonic Plague is typically associated with which animal?
Bat
Rat
Bird
Dog
The Bubonic Plague is a strain of what agent?
Variola
Salmonella
Yersenia
Influenza
Deaths from plague in the Middle Ages may have left more people with a gene that made them resistant to what other pandemic-causing disease?
COVID-19
Influenza
Dengue
AIDS
Which drug, originally used to treat malaria, was recently trialled to treat COVID-19?
Hydroxychloroquine
Remdesivir
Amoxicillin
Operation Neptune
What was the first recorded spread of an infectious disease from one continent to another?
Plague of Athens
Smallpox in the New World
Plague of Justinian
Sixth Plague of Egypt
What is H1N1 more commonly known as?
Bird Flu
Swine Flu
Bovine Flu
Ebola
Where was the most recent Bubonic Plague outbreak?
China
Britain
Madagascar
Peru
When was the first COVID-19 death reported?
31 December 2019
1 January 2020
7 January 2020
11 January 2020
What major disease did Europeans catch in the Americas and bring back to Europe?
Syphillis
Yellow Fever
Scarlet Fever
Smallpox
Which animal spreads the disease Typhus?
Rat
Bat
Mouse
Lice
Which virus inspired the movie 'Contagion'?
Nipah
SARS
Swine Flu
Bird Flu
Which of these animals can spread Nipah?
Orangutan
Mouse
Pig
Rat
From which animal did COVID-19 originate?
Rat
Bat
Pig
Cow
John Snow is known for mapping which epidemic in London?
Cholera
Bubonic Plague
Typhus
Smallpox
Who developed the Polio vaccine?
Daniel Hare Williams
Jonas Salk
Louis Pasteur
Alexander Fleming
Where was the first case of Ebola?
Guinea
Liberia
Mali
Sierra Leone
What is considered the largest pandemic in History?
Sixth Cholera Pandemic
Spanish Flu
The Black Death
Plague of Justinian
Which continent was NOT hit by the Bubonic Plague?
Africa
North America
Europe
Asia
Which children's song is about the Black Death?
Humpty Dumpty
Here we go round the mulberry bush
Pop goes the weasel
Ring around the rosie
Which of these animals is NOT a host to a coronavirus?
Bats
Pandas
Cattle
Camels
Which of these pandemics only killed as many people as a regular flu season?
Ebola
SARS
MERS
Swine Flu
According to WHO, how many phases of a pandemic are there?
4
5
6
7
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