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Fill in both blanks in this sentence from a Wikipedia article: "_____ is due to a reactivation of varicella zoster virus (VZV) within a person's body. _____ is due to an initial infection with VZV." (Your answers must be in correct order.)

What is the common, 5-letter name for the pediatric respiratory condition whose severity is assessed using the Westley score? Typical symptoms include a barking cough and strident breathing.

Influenza, strep throat, measles, rabies, tuberculosis, syphilis: which THREE of these are caused by bacteria?

To cope with my symptoms, I have taken several paracetamol tablets over the last 24 hours. At least, that's what people in much of the world would call the active ingredient in the pills I took; what is the more common generic name for this ingredient in the U. S. and Canada?

Two diseases (one of people and one of cattle) have been officially recognized as globally eradicated. Name both.

Pellagra is a disease primarily caused by a deficiency of what nutrient, also known as vitamin B3? This deficiency is most common in areas where corn is the staple grain, although it can be warded off by nixtamalizing the corn (turning it into hominy), which makes the nutrient in question more available.

When I was 19, I probably had this viral disease, although I never presented the glandular swelling which would have led to a definite diagnosis. What is certain is that I lived in the same house as someone else who also came down with it, and, being the bohemians we were, we had almost certainly passed around a wine bottle or something, which, if you're going to expose yourself to transmission of this disease, is not the MOST fun way to do it.

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In the last few years, California, Washington, and Wisconsin are among the U. S. states which have experienced major outbreaks of what vaccine-preventable disease? There have been multiple movements to resist the vaccine, including a movement in the 1970s set off by (later-debunked) fears that the vaccine could cause a type of encephalopathy.

What mosquito-borne disease, widespread in Southeast Asia and Central America, is also the name of a Cambodian pop fusion band from L. A.? This disease infects millions annually and is usually not serious, but a small number of cases develop into a potentially fatal hemorrhagic form.

Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren received the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology for their work which overturned medical consensus about the typical causes of what condition? This condition affects about 1 in 10 people at some point in their life.

The infection caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis has three main classifications: pneumonic (affecting the lungs), septicemic (affecting the blood vessels), and -- most famously -- what third kind, which affects the lymph nodes?