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Plagues + Pandemics
YGK These Plagues and Pandemics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The plague that struck Greece in 430 BC during the Peloponnesian War, killing Pericles and 25% of Athens' population | The Great Plague of Athens |
| The Roman historian who described the Plague of Athens, noting it spread from Ethiopia | Thucydides |
| The plague (165-180 AD) that spread across the Roman Empire after troops returned from Parthia, described in detail by the physician Galen | The Antonine Plague |
| The probable causes of the Antonine Plague | Smallpox or measles |
| The first plague pandemic that swept Europe and Asia in the 540s, caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium | The Plague of Justinian |
| The 14th-century pandemic (second plague pandemic) likely introduced to Europe by Mongol forces at Kaffa, killing roughly half of the continent's population | The Black Death |
| The frame story collection by Giovanni Boccaccio involving ten people fleeing the plague in Florence | Decameron |
| The Great Plague that occurred in London in 1665 | The Great Plague of London |
| A sexually transmitted disease that spread across Europe starting in the 1490s (the "great pox"), believed to have come from the Americas | Syphilis |
| The U.S. government study in Tuskegee, Alabama that inhumanely did not treat hundreds of Black men infected with syphilis | The Tuskegee Study |
| An infectious fever carried by lice, first identified among Spanish troops attacking Granada, which caused most deaths during the Thirty Years' War | Typhus |
| The disease caused by the variola virus that devastated indigenous populations in the Americas and Australia when introduced by colonizers | Smallpox |
| The Chinese doctors' strategy for inoculating against smallpox (1500s) and Edward Jenner's 1796 invention using cowpox | Inoculation and the first vaccine |
| An intestinal infection that originated in India and swept the globe during six pandemics in the 19th century due to British colonialism | Cholera |
| The epidemiologist who identified the Broad Street pump as the common link in a cholera outbreak, concluding the disease was water-borne | John Snow |
| The pandemic from 1918-1920 (H1N1 influenza strain) that killed up to 100 million people and disproportionately affected younger people due to "cytokine storms" | The Spanish Flu |
| A condition caused by HIV, a virus originating in monkeys, that triggered a pandemic beginning in 1981 and devastated gay communities and sub-Saharan Africa | AIDS |
| The gay journalist who chronicled the early AIDS pandemic and government indifference in his book And the Band Played On | Randy Shilts |
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