Pandemics #2

In 1817, during the first Cholera Pandemic, the bacterium was passed along to British soldiers who brought it to India where millions more died.

• true

• false

Starting in China and moving to India and Hong Kong, the bubonic plague claimed roughly _____ million victims.

• 3

• 5

• 10

• 15

After Fiji ceded to the British Empire, a royal party visited Australia as a gift from Queen Victoria. Arriving during a ______ outbreak, the royal party brought the disease back to their island.

• cholera

• malaria

• smallpox

• measles

During the 1875 Fiji Measles Pandemic, about ______ people died.

• 5,000

• 15,000

• 25,000

• 40,000

The 1889 _______ flu pandemic started in Siberia and Kazakhstan, traveled to Moscow, and made its way into Finland and then Poland, where it moved into the rest of Europe.

• Russian

• Spanish

• Chinese

• Yellow

By the following year 1890, the Russian flu crossed the ocean into North America and Africa. By the end of 1890, ________ had died.

• 75,000

• 125,000

• 360,000

• 500,000

The avian-borne flu that resulted in _____ million deaths worldwide, the 1918 flu was first observed in Europe, the United States and parts of Asia before swiftly spreading around the world.

• 7

• 10

• 25

• 50

Wire service reports of a flu outbreak in Madrid in the spring of 1918 led to the pandemic being called the “Spanish flu.”

• true

• false

October _______ would become the deadliest month in American history as a contagion the likes of which had not been seen since the days of the Black Death raged around the world.

• 1918

• 1922

• 1930

• 1945

By the time it became less intense in 1920, the Spanish flu had killed ________ Americans and left hundreds of thousands of children orphaned.

• 250,000

• 325,000

• 675,000

• 1,000,000