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Myths about infectious disease - Multiple choice

Choose the correct answer for each question. The incorrect options are all based on myths many people actually believed (or still do) about infectious disease.
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Last updated: February 1, 2021
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1. What causes plague?
A rank vapour from decaying matter called 'miasma' ✓
Sinfulness ✓
Jews ✓
The bacterium Yersinia pestis ✓
2. How is plague spread?
Via miasma through the air ✓
Via mangey cats and dogs ✓
Via flea bites ✓
Via rat bites ✓
Fleas carry the plague, and the rats carry the fleas. People thought cats and dogs caused plague, and were paid bounties for killing them. This caused rat numbers to shoot up and worsen the plague.
3. What is the best way to treat plague?
Bloodletting the buboes ✓
Whipping yourself and praying ✓
Barricading sufferers in their homes ✓
Antibiotics ✓
The other treatments were all widely used throughout Black Death, and only did more harm
4. How is Cholera spread?
Breathing polluted air ✓
Consuming contaminated water ✓
John Snow discerned Cholera was water-borne in the 1850s
5. Which of these facts about malaria is true?
If you've had malaria before, you become immune to it ✓
Malaria is only a problem in Africa ✓
Children are at low risk from malaria ✓
The global death rate of malaria is less than 1% ✓
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6. Which of these facts about Tuberculosis (TB) is true?
TB is very rare nowadays ✓
TB can be hereditary ✓
You can only catch TB from prolonged close contact with someone who has it ✓
TB only affects the lungs ✓
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7. Which of these facts about flu is true?
Flu is a worse form of the common cold ✓
There are over a dozen species of flu virus ✓
Cold weather can cause flu ✓
Antibiotics can treat flu ✓
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8. What was the origin of the Spanish flu?
It originated in Spain ✓
It was caused by the First World War ✓
It came from a pig/chicken farm in Kansas ✓
Nobody knows for certain but it is mostly believed to have come from animals bred at a military base in Fort Riley
9. Which of these facts about anthrax is true?
Anthrax is highly contagious ✓
Anthrax can be caught from infected animals ✓
A tiny amount of anthrax could wipe out a whole town ✓
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10. How is HIV spread?
Sexual intercourse or blood transfusion ✓
Touching or kissing ✓
Mosquitoes ✓
Surface contact ✓
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11. Which of these facts about HIV is true?
HIV has highly visible symptoms ✓
Only gay men can get HIV ✓
It's possible for HIV positive parents to give birth to a a HIV negative child ✓
Having sex with a virgin cures HIV ✓
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12. How is zika virus most commonly spread?
Contaminated water ✓
Contaminated fruit ✓
Aedes Mosquito bites ✓
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13. Which of these facts about polio is true?
Polio cannot be cured ✓
Polio is something you are born with ✓
Only children can contract polio ✓
Polio is endemic in 2 continents ✓
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14. Which of these facts about leprosy/Hansen's Disease is true?
Leprosy is very rare nowadays ✓
Leprosy is fully curable ✓
Leprosy causes fingers and toes to fall off ✓
Leprosy is highly contagious through casual contact ✓
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15. Which of these is a real viral disease?
Tuxissa ✓
Cooties ✓
Kissing disease ✓
Man flu ✓
Kissing disease is another name for Mononucleosis
CardinalSin
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Level 77
Feb 1, 2021
The pneumonic form of the plague is spread by droplets - therefore "through the air" is a correct answer. Also catching malaria does afford some degree of immunity, which is why it is generally so much more serious in children (8% of child deaths globally caused by malaria). I think that it is unfair to mark these two answers "wrong".
HelveticaBold
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Level 71
Feb 1, 2021
Thanks I'll make the plague one clearer, but it is a common misconception that you automatically become fully immune to malaria if you've had it once which is not the case.
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