Thursday, April 30, 2009

Question - 242

Connect the visuals. Be as specific as possible.

Answer: The people are index cases (or patient zeros - the initial patient in the population sample of an epidemiological investigation). They are (from top left anticlockwise) Mary Mallon aka Typhoid Mary (Typhoid), Mabalo Lokela (Ebola), Gaetan Dugas (AIDS) and Edgar Hernandez (Swine influenza). Nice try, Srivats and Rajesh K got the entire connect while Mekie came really close. Well done.

5 comments:

Srivats said...

er... i recognize typhoid mary, and ebola in uganda... but no clue abt the connect

mekie said...

Infectious diseases / Epidemics

Mary Mallon (Typhoid 'Mary')
Edgar Hernandez (Swine flu)
Patient with Ebola virus
Some actor associated with Spanish flu??

nice try said...

patient zero of different epidemics?

(last guy is gaetan dugas, claimed to be patient zero for aids)

Srivats said...

Right. the other two are Edgar Hernandez and Gaetan Dugas... so the connection is Index cases or Patient Zeros.... cant believe i didnt get it earlier

Anonymous said...

Patient zeros - Typhoid Mary, Ebola virus (the african), The Canadian - Dugas (AIDS) and the mexican kid for the H1N1 (who famously recovered by eating icecreams).

-Rajesh K