Health and Disease


1The disease rickets is caused by a deficiency in which vitamin?
2How is the childhood illness “pertussis” more commonly known?
3Once 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?
4Dr Edward Jenner developed the technique of vaccination to combat which disease?
5Florence Nightingale came to fame as a result of her nursing of soldiers during which war?
6Sir 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?
7Pediculus humanus capitis is the Latin name for which parasite?
8Which part of the body would be affected, if you suffered from “Quinsy”?
9Spread by the bite of an infected Tsetse fly, how is the disease Human African Trypanosomiasis more commonly known?
10What does the acronym ADHD stand for?
quiz kindly submitted by Durbz on 28th February 2020