Q 01/05

Which viral illness, common in teenagers and young adults, is nicknamed 'the kissing disease'?

A) Chickenpox

B) Mononucleosis

C) Hepatitis A

D) Rubella

Answer · why

B) Mononucleosis

Mononucleosis spreads through saliva, so you can catch it by sharing cups or cutlery, not only through kissing.

Q 02/05

Edward Jenner's first vaccination used material from which animal disease?

A) Swinepox

B) Horsepox

C) Sheep scab

D) Cowpox

Answer · why

D) Cowpox

Cowpox matter came from a sore on milkmaid Sarah Nelmes's hand, and Jenner later exposed his eight-year-old patient to smallpox to prove he was protec...

Q 03/05

Which bacterium causes whooping cough?

A) Bordetella pertussis

B) Corynebacterium diphtheriae

C) Haemophilus influenzae

D) Streptococcus pyogenes

Answer · why

A) Bordetella pertussis

Bordetella pertussis brings on coughing fits that end in a 'whoop' as the patient gasps for breath, yet young babies often don't whoop at all.

Q 04/05

Which 9-year-old, badly bitten by a dog, received Pasteur's rabies vaccine in July 1885?

A) Joseph Meister

B) James Phipps

C) Émile Roux

D) Louis Thuillier

Answer · why

A) Joseph Meister

Joseph Meister's recovery drew patients to Pasteur from across the world, and the rush led to the Institut Pasteur, founded in 1887.

Q 05/05

Robert Koch's 1876 discovery of the bacterium causing which disease is considered the birth of modern bacteriology?

A) Cholera

B) Tuberculosis

C) Diphtheria

D) Anthrax

Answer · why

D) Anthrax

Anthrax was the disease: in 1876 Koch cultured Bacillus anthracis and traced its spore-forming life cycle; he later identified the TB and cholera bact...