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RE: ❓Steemit Quiz 2025 - Week 8
Question 12 - Guest Question
🔗 Connections 🖇️
Beyond the obvious (that they are infectious diseases that primarily affect humans and have significant global health impacts),
What connects these four diseases?
- Malaria
- Hepatitis
- HIV
- Tuberculosis
Each of these four diseases has an annual awareness day officially recognized by WHO.
👎 That's not the connection we're looking for...
Each of these four diseases led to groundbreaking medical discoveries that earned Nobel Prizes.
✅ That's correct! Each of these diseases led to the awarding of a Nobel Prize in medicine.
They are all transmissible diseases
Malaria needs a vector (a female anopheles mosquito) for the transmission. So it's not directly transmissible...
Only tuberculosis (TB) is airborne. Other diseases require a vector (e.g., needles or mosquitoes), are foodborne (e.g., some types of hepatitis), or are sexually transmitted (e.g., some types of hepatitis and HIV).
👎 I'm looking for something more specific - unrelated to how the diseases spread or behave
No apparent connection
Two are viral
One protozoal
One bacterial
Other than that they are prevalent in low socio economic conditions/countries
👎 I'm looking for something unrelated to how the disease spreads or behaves...
Perhaps what ties them together is that without timely diagnosis, they can all lead to death?🙂
👎 The answer is unrelated to possible consequences of each disease...
I can think of The Global Fund, fighting against three infectious diseases i.e; HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria. Still hepatitis is left out!
These infectious diseases (minus HIV) are 3 major global public health threats that undermine development in low- and middle-income countries...
Can't think of anything else!
disconnect has got the answer - each of the diseases have led to a Nobel Prize in medicine.