1. Joe McCormick met with scientists from what country that wanted samples of the Lassa virus?
(a) The Soviet Union.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Australia.
(d) The United States.

2. After his work with famine relief efforts, Uwe Brinkmann was dubbed by Germans as a __________.
(a) Communist.
(b) Federalist.
(c) Conservative.
(d) Liberal.

3. The Black Plague reached its peak in Europe between what years?
(a) 1348-1350.
(b) 1491-1497.
(c) 1675-1678.
(d) 1221-1222.

4. By what year did the World Bank see the need for better health care in poorly developed countries?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1975.

5. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who knew to drastically increase ______________.
(a) Fluids.
(b) Food.
(c) Pain killers.
(d) Antibiotics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the author write that the Institute of Medicine convened a panel to discuss the severity of a microbial threat to United States citizens in the Introduction?

2. The first epidemic of Legionnaires' disease occurred during what month in the year 1976?

3. When was the CDC founded?

4. In a small village in Uganda, young women began becoming ill following sex with a traveling salesman and the disease was dubbed ______________.

5. What did GRID stand for when it was first applied to the AIDS epidemic?

(see the answer key)

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