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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. What term refers to a disease created as a result of medical treatment?
(a) Infection.
(b) Pandemic.
(c) Retrovirus.
(d) Iatrogenic.

2. How many deaths were reported from the first epidemic of Legionnaires' disease in 1976?
(a) 173.
(b) 328.
(c) 34.
(d) 92.

3. Ron MacKenzie and what ecologist arrived in San Joaquin, where the locals believed the Bolivian virus was born, in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Peter Piot.
(b) Don Francis.
(c) Jordi Casals.
(d) Merl Kuns.

4. Where in Bolivia did Ron MacKenzie travel in order to investigate a disease in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Magdalena.
(b) Lagos.
(c) Bogata.
(d) Quito.

5. In what year did the worst flu epidemic in the twentieth century strike, killing millions?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1873.

Short Answer Questions

1. What organ does tuberculosis usually attack?

2. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the efforts to eradicate _______ actually made the disease more rampant.

3. Who worked with Patricia Webb on the Ebola virus in the CDC's laboratory?

4. In 1967, an outbreak of an unknown virus occurred in which location?

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

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