In Sickness and In Health - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) Birds. Over two hundred million birds have been killed and over ten billion dollars spent trying to contain the H5N1 avian influenza alone.
• A2) Common cold. Acute viral rhinopharyngitis is caused by picornaviruses, including rhinoviruses, or coronaviruses.
• A3) Pneumonia. Pneumonia can be caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, or any form of damage to the lungs.
• A4) Bronchitis. Cases of bronchitis are split into acute (several days or weeks) and chronic (any three months over a two year period).
• A5) Sinusitis. The four groups refer to the sinuses where the inflammation occurs. Cases of sinusitis are also split into acute (less than four weeks), subacute (four to twelve weeks), and chronic (twelve weeks or longer).
• A6) Varicella zoster virus. Chicken pox is primarily a children's disease, while the others mainly affect adults.
• A7) Cowpox. Edward Jenner coined the term "vaccination" from the Latin vacca, meaning "cow".
• A8) Measles. The fever-inducing illness is highly contagious because it spread through the air.
• A9) Mumps. Despite widespread vaccination against mumps, outbreaks involving upwards of a thousand people still occur periodically, even in first world countries like the U.S.
• A10) Rabies. The name, meaning "fear of water" comes from the victims' inability to swallow water.
• A11) Rubella. The triple dose immunizes patients against mumps, measles, and German measles. A second dose is administered a month or more later to inoculate the small percentage of people whom the first shot does not help.
• A12) Smallpox. The Latin term means "pimples", which which will break out all over the body.