The NIEHS A to Z Game

For every letter of the alphabet, try to think of a health problem that we might study at NIEHS. And for the really hard letters like Q or Z, you might want to read our Environmental Diseases from A to Z pamphlet first, and then finish your answers. Remember, there are many correct answers, so your answers do not have to match the ones we list below.

Possible Answers

ALLERGIES and ASTHMA (AZ-ma)
BIRTH DEFECTS
CANCER
DERMATITIS (dur-muh-TIE-tiss)
EMPHYSEMA (EM-fuh-ZEE-ma
FERTILITY PROBLEMS
GOITER (GOY-ter)
HEART DISEASE
IMMUNE DEFICIENCY DISEASES
JOB-RELATED ILLNESS
KIDNEY DISEASES
LEAD POISONING
MERCURY POISONING
NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDER
OSTEOPOROSIS
PNEUMOCONIOSIS
QUEENSLAND FEVER
REPRODUCTIVE DISORDER
SUNBURN AND SKIN CANCER
TOOTH DECAY
URANIUM POISONING
VISION PROBLEM
WATERBORNE DISEASES
XERODERMA PIGMENTOS
YUSHO POISONING
ZINC DEFICIENCY and
ZINC POISONING

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