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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. According to the author in Chapter 6: "American Bicentennial," the CDC was being berated since how many elderly individuals died following their vaccinations for swine flu?
(a) 3.
(b) 14.
(c) 8.
(d) 2.

2. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the efforts to eradicate _______ actually made the disease more rampant.
(a) Malaria.
(b) Swine Flu.
(c) HIV.
(d) The Black Typhus.

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

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

5. The disease that Ron MacKenzie went to Bolivia to investigate in Chapter 1: "Machupo" was dubbed by local doctors as ____________.
(a) Measles.
(b) The Black Typhus.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Schistosomiasis.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Joe McCormick in Brazil overseeing a massive meningitis outbreak?

2. Soon after the first outbreak described in Chapter 5: "Yambuku," another outbreak was seen at the hospital in what location?

3. Yambuku is a small village in the Mongala District of what current country?

4. Where was Peter Piot sent to study the virus later known as Ebola?

5. A study in Africa related to TB showed its decrease was likely due to what?

(see the answer key)

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