Patient Zero: Chapter 2 - Cholera

People believed Cholera came from…

• raw sewage

  
  

• Dead rats

•  Poisoned air (miasma)

  
  

• People coughing

  
  

Who is known as the father of epidemiology?

• John Graunt

• Henry Whitehead

• Logan Tracey

• John Snow

True or False: Cesspools are fresh water pools used for cooling off in summertime.

• True

• False

How did John Snow collect his data about the cause of the cholera outbreak?

• He gave every house a questionnaire to fill out

  
  

• He called every house on the phone

  
  

• He walked door to door every night talking to people

  
  

• He interviewed the local doctors about their patients

  
  

True or False: Summer diarrhea wasn't unusual for children in hot weather.

• True

• False

True or False: Scientists today still use mapping as a technique to demonstrate linkages between disease outbreaks and risk factors in the environment.

• True

• False

What was the source of the cholera outbreak in the Soho neighborhood in London?

• the river Thames

  
  

• the Broad Street Pump

• the Panama Canal

  
  

• dirty pipes in baby Frances’ house

True or False: John Snow believed that cholera was caused by miasma.

• True

• False

True or False: The cure for cholera is clean water.

• True

• False

Who was Patient Zero in the Soho Cholera Outbreak of 1854?

• John Snow

• Frances Lewis

• Mickey Lawton

• Goodwoman Philips