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Infection: A Quiz on the Movie and Infectious Agents

Test your knowledge on the movie Infection and the infectious agents that cause diseases in humans.

1 What role did Norbert Weisser play in the movie Infection?

2 Who played Man with Disabled Truck in the movie Infection?

3 What role did Tony Stewart play in the movie Infection?

4 Who played Government Agent/Alien in the movie Infection?

5 What role did Joseph Friedl play in the movie Infection?

6 Infectious agents which cause disease in humans include bacteria, viruses, ________ and fungi.

7 Who played Dr. Franks/Deputy Ben in the movie Infection?

8 Others enter via breaks in the skin, for example a surgical incision or a ________.

9 Bacterial and viral infections can both cause symptoms such as malaise, ________, and chills.

10 Who played Timmy Boswell in the movie Infection?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the bite of the hematophagous assassin bug, which causes the rare South American parasitic infection known as Chagas disease, could have been the reason behind Charles Darwin's illness.
  • the fruits of Matico (Piper aduncum) are used as a condiment, for flavoring cocoa, and its leaves are used as an antiseptic, to stop hemorrhage, and to treat infections.
  • the sailors of the Santa María shipwrecked in Haiti were infected by the first reported cases of tungiasis, a disease caused by burrowing fleas.
  • the Foothill Yellow-legged Frog secretes an anti-fungal protein from its skin to prevent infections by various fungi such as Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.
  • sporotrichosis is a chronic fungal infection that commonly affects farmers.
  • chromoblastomycosis is a fungal skin infection that can be caught from a thorn or splinter.
  • mastoiditis is an infection that can result from untreated middle ear infections.
  • osteomyelitis, i.e. bone infection, is particularly common in the tibia, femur, humerus and vertebral bodies.
  • 95% of adults have been infected by human herpesvirus 7, a virus that can cause influenza-like illness and seizures but normally causes no symptoms.