Consider the following thirteen diseases, all of which we discussed, although some of them only briefly.
- AIDS
- Bubonic plague
- Lyme disease
- Cholera
- Ebola hemorrhagic fever
- Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome
- Measles
- Marburg hemorrhagic fever
- Tuberculosis
- Malaria
- Polio
- Influenza
- Yellow fever
- Four of these disease have vectors. Which are they and what are the vectors?
- Three of these diseases have rodent reservoirs. Which are they?
- Which three of these diseases have exhibited a series of truly global pandemics?
- Which of these disease are essentially incurable? What do these incurable diseases have in common?
- Which of these diseases is caused by neither a bacteria nor a virus? What is it caused by?
- Which two of these disease are transmitted by the fecal-oral route?
- Which two of these diseases are a particular problem to immunocompromised people? Why?
- Which of these disease can be vertically transmitted?
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