The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

Laurie Garrett
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

Laurie Garrett
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: Microbe Magnets and Chapter 10: Distant Thunder.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Karl Johnson worked with whom to create a portable lab to keep airborne disease from infecting the doctors in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Harold Jaffe.
(b) Karl Johnson.
(c) Al Wieden.
(d) Peter Piot.

2. What did Karl Johnson's team discover to be the culprit of the Bolivian disease in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Bed bugs.
(b) Owl droppings.
(c) Mouse urine.
(d) Roach feces.

3. Human trials of Albert Sabin's oral polio vaccine began in what year?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1963.

4. Karl Johnson's team realized that in San Joaquin, there were no ________ as a result of DDT spraying in Chapter 1: "Machupo."
(a) Snakes.
(b) Cats.
(c) Owls.
(d) Eagles.

5. Legionnaires' disease acquired its name when an outbreak of pneumonia occurred among people attending a convention in what city?
(a) Philadelphia, PA.
(b) Chicago, IL.
(c) Denver, CO.
(d) Detroit, MI.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 1: "Machupo," Karl Johnson found himself deathly ill with what disease?

2. The outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in 1976 forced through the bills regarding _____________.

3. The disease that Ron MacKenzie went to Bolivia to investigate in Chapter 1: "Machupo" was dubbed by local doctors as ____________.

4. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who knew to drastically increase ______________.

5. Leprosy has affected humanity for over how many years?

(see the answer key)

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