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Infectious Diseases

Puzzle Type: Educational
Lead: Stansifer, Court
Horizontales
Spread through the fecal oral route.
Bacterial inflammation of the colon. Smells like Bigfoot ate White Castle.
500 years ago, 1 out of three children died before the age of five because we didn't have this.
Indigenous to the human body, this bacteria helps provide defense against more harmful bacteria.
Part of the immune system that includes the spleen, lymph, bone marrow, and liver. Leukocytes are stored here.
Capable of being transmitted from person to person.
There are different types of these parasites, but they like to inhabit the skin in areas covered with hair.
Larygotracheobronchiolitis. Also known as whooping cough. Yes there is a vaccine.
Stiffness of the jaw secondary to Tetanus.
This child died of AIDS in the 1980's and sparked legislation protecting the sick from discrimination, as well as privacy.
Verticales
A large outbreak over a large geographical region.
This rhinovirus is considered to be the greatest pathological threat to mankind. It killed 24 million people in 1918.
Phase in which a pathogen is busy reproducing.
Previously thought to have been eliminated from the US, vaccination has reduced the number of cases in this country by over 99%.
This US President was a dedicated swimmer, until he contracted polio from it. No, there was no vaccine yet.
Examples include chicken pox, shingles, and even mononucleosis is a distant cousin.
This hemorrhagic fever mostly kills from dehydration long before one bleeds from the eyes. Vascular breakdown is a symptom however.
Strength of a pathogen. Measures the relative danger to humans.
Bacterium affecting the lungs, liver, and CNS. Highly contagious.
This virus never really killed anyone directly. It just leaves the patient severely immunocompromised for other infections to do it.