Exam 16: Protecting, Sustaining, and Empowering: a Historical Perspective on the Control of Epidemics

Individuals whose friends or family-members had died of AIDS often led the way in developing organizations that raised awareness of the disease and its transmission. These organizations were known as:

During the influenza pandemic of 1918 morbidity and mortality was highest among older adults and lowest among healthy adults.

The second recorded pandemic that swept across Europe and Central Asia in the 14^th century was termed:

Theory of contagion (diseases could be transmitted between people) was articulated effectively during the 14^th century.

Widespread fear created a scenario of moral panic that damaged the earliest AIDS health education campaigns.

Part of the role of a health magistrate during the plague was to maintain control and order rather than chaos.

The history of the containment and control of HIV is in part due to the success of self-help groups.

"Good nursing care," during the influenza epidemic of 1918, was considered those actions that enabled patient's physiological system to survive best while the immune system fought infectious disease. This "good nursing action" included:

The influenza of 1918 killed twice as many people as the number killed during World War I.

Legislation was in full force during the end of the 14^th century and included legislation against keeping animal such as pigs and the selling of manure.

The influenza of 1918 originated in China spread throughout the USA via the mobilization and movement of troops who were housed in overcrowded barracks.

Which of the following was a principle aim of the magistrates of the city states of Italy during the Bubonic plague?

Italian cities such as Venice, Rome, Naples, and Florence were at particular risk of Bubonic plague because of the open trade routes with the East permitting in the delivery of goods infested with rats and rat fleas.