Diseases in History

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• Which microorganism causes the plague that devastated Europe during the Black Death?
• Which historical achievement was officially certified by the WHO in 1980?
• Why is the 1918 influenza pandemic often called the Spanish flu, even though it did not originate in Spain?
• What did John Snow's investigation of the 1854 London cholera outbreak help establish?
• Match each historical disease with the characteristic or scientific discovery most closely associated with it.
• Match each historical epidemic with its principal location or context.
• Match each medical figure with the disease-related contribution associated with that person.
• Match each disease with its historically important mode of transmission.