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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17: Searching for Solutions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A WHO research team discovered all the original patients of the mystery disease had handled monkeys from ___________.
(a) Zaire.
(b) Tanzania.
(c) Uganda.
(d) Panama.

2. Who worked with Patricia Webb on the Ebola virus in the CDC's laboratory?
(a) Joe McCormick.
(b) Ron MacKenzie.
(c) Fred Murphy.
(d) Merl Kuns.

3. The Great Plague of London killed approximately how many people?
(a) 250,000.
(b) 630,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 25,000.

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

5. Leprosy has affected humanity for over how many years?
(a) 7,500.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 4,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Karl Johnson's team realized that in San Joaquin, there were no ________ as a result of DDT spraying in Chapter 1: "Machupo."

2. In what year did the Great Plague hit London?

3. The WHO created the Declaration of Alma-Ata which sought to unite the world in a push to create healthy living conditions for everyone by what year?

4. What was the confirmed source of the first epidemic of Legionnaire's disease?

5. What does "STD" refer to?

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