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Famous Historical Pandemics

Test your knowledge of major disease outbreaks and pandemics that have shaped human history.0 takes
by @triviagang_dataUpdated 2d ago

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  • 01The Black Death, which devastated Europe in the 14th century, was caused by which bacterium?
  • 02The 1918 influenza pandemic, which infected about a third of the world's population, is most commonly known by what nickname?
  • 03The Plague of Justinian in the 6th century AD caused widespread death and societal upheaval primarily in which empire?
  • 04Who is credited with developing the world's first vaccine, which targeted the smallpox virus?
  • 05The Third Plague Pandemic, which began in the mid-19th century, is believed to have originated in which modern-day country?
  • 06The Antonine Plague, which afflicted the Roman Empire from 165 to 180 AD, is thought by most scholars to have been an epidemic of which disease?
  • 07Cholera pandemics have occurred repeatedly since the 19th century. What is the primary mode of transmission for the disease?
  • 08In the acronym AIDS, which stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, what does the 'A' represent?
  • 09The Great Plague of London, the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague in Great Britain, occurred in which century?
  • 10John Snow is considered one of the fathers of modern epidemiology for his work tracing the source of a 19th-century outbreak of which disease in London?
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