Question 80 · LEK · Historical outline of public health
The use of variolisation in the past was associated with the spreading of:
- A. plague.
- B. cholera.
- C. spotted typhus.
- D. smallpox.
- E. yellow fever.
Hint
Variolation used material taken from patients' pustules; think of the disease whose Latin name gave the method its name.
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