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HEALTH & DISEASE
1. | The disease rickets is caused by a deficiency in which vitamin? |
2. | How is the childhood illness “pertussis” more commonly known? |
3. | Once called “The Royal Disease” as it was common in the European Royal families in the 19th & 20th C, which genetic disease did Queen Victoria’s son Prince Leopold suffer from? |
4. | Dr Edward Jenner developed the technique of vaccination to combat which disease? |
5. | Florence Nightingale came to fame as a result of her nursing of soldiers during which war? |
6. | Sir Robert Ross was the UK’s first Nobel Prize winner, when he was awarded the 1902 prize in Medicine for his work on which tropical disease? |
7. | Pediculus humanus capitis is the Latin name for which parasite? |
8. | Which part of the body would be affected, if you suffered from “Quinsy”? |
9. | Spread by the bite of an infected Tsetse fly, how is the disease Human African Trypanosomiasis more commonly known? |
10. | What does the acronym ADHD stand for? |
quiz kindly submitted by Durbz on 28th February 2020