Disease Detectives B/C

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Disease Detectives B/C

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Super duper easy one. What type of plague was the black death and how does that type of plague spread?
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It was the Bubonic plague, and spread through fleas that were on rodents.

What was the first instance of inoculation?
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That would be Dr. Edward Jenner's first vaccination against smallpox in 1796, right?

What is a propagated source outbreak and what does its epi curve look like?
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