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Questions
1. Reflect on the first chapter of Alcabes [DREAD: HOW FEAR AND FANTASY HAVE FUELED EPIDEMICS FROM THE BLACK DEATH TO AVIAN FLU by PHILIP ALCABES] , and the relevance of fear when talking about pandemics.
2. Between 1347 and 1351, the so-called Black Death killed roughly what proportion of the European population?
3. In an attempt to subdue hostile American Indian tribes during the Seven Years' War, Lord Amherst used what method(s)?
4. Jesuit's Bark was used to treat what disease?
5. Who introduced the practice of vaccination?
6. Who is known as the father of modern epidemiology?
7. What did Ignaz Semmelweis hypothesize about transmission of puerperal fever at the Vienna Lying-In Hospital?
8. List the steps in the Köch-Henle Postulates for infectious disease.
9. Who was one of the first to question person-to-person transmission of yellow fever?
10. How did Giovanni Maria Lancisi attempt to prevent malaria in Italy?
11. Who determined that wood ticks (Dermacentor andersoni) transmitted Rocky Mountain spotted fever?
12. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were originally established as what and in what year?
13. In the United States, the Biologics Act of 1902 was in response to what event?
14. In the United States, the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 was in response to what event?
15. Paul Ehrlich (German, 1854-1915) developed the first so-called magic bullet drug, Salvarsan, in 1909 to treat what disease?
16. The first synthetic antimalarial was what?
17. The CDC began publication of Emerging Infectious Diseases in January of what year?