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Hint	Disease	% Correct
Virus whose first major outbreak started in December 2019 in Wuhan, China	Covid-19	99%
Uncurable STD that was almost always fatal until the invention of the "cocktail"	HIV	90%
Hemorrhagic fever that broke out in West Africa in 2014	Ebola	85%
Nickname of the flu that killed about 3% of the world's population in 1918–19	{Spanish} Flu	79%
Caused by animal bites, it is nearly always fatal unless quickly treated by a vaccine	Rabies	78%
Nearly everybody over the age of 30 had it as a child. As an adult, it can re-emerge as shingles.	Chicken Pox	76%
Jonas Salk created the vaccine for this paralytic disease in 1955. It may be eradicated by the end of the decade.	Polio	73%
Causes cold sores	Herpes simplex	71%
The only infectious disease to be eliminated in humans	Smallpox	71%
Group of five unrelated viruses (A, B, C, D, and E) which cause liver problems	Hepatitis	68%
Virus similar to the above which killed 299 people in Hong Kong in the early 2000s	SARS	68%
This childhood illness was once nearly eradicated in the first world due to vaccines, but is having a small resurgence.	Measles	67%
Another mosquito-borne tropical virus. Far less common than the above, it has a much higher mortality rate (about 15%).	{Yellow} Fever	66%
Also called H5N1, this virus has caused much worry but not much loss of life	{Bird} Flu	65%
Causes painful swelling of the salivary glands	Mumps	58%
Along with the two above, this virus is prevented by the MMR vaccine	Rubella	51%
Virus that can cause babies to be born with small heads	Zika	46%
Mosquito-borne tropical virus that strikes at least 50 million people yearly, killing about 25,000	{Dengue} Fever	42%
STD that is usually benign but can cause warts and also cervical cancer. At least 25% of adults are infected.	HPV	42%
Mosquito-borne infection named for a river in Africa	West Nile	33%