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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 concept stated that as nations moved out of poverty and basic needs were met, scientists could use pharmaceutical and chemical tools to wipe out parasites, bacteria, and viruses?
(a) The Wealthy Cleansing.
(b) Healthy Investments.
(c) Banking on Doctors.
(d) The Health Transition.

2. What was the confirmed source of the first epidemic of Legionnaire's disease?
(a) Mouse feces.
(b) Bad plumbing.
(c) Air conditioning.
(d) Mosquitos.

3. Where was Peter Piot sent to study the virus later known as Ebola?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Tanzania.
(c) Spain.
(d) Zaire.

4. Who was on the team that Patricia Webb built to travel to Yambuku?
(a) Joel Breman.
(b) Selman Waksman.
(c) Uwe Brinkmann.
(d) Johnathan Mann.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The yellow fever epidemic was rampant in areas of West Africa and was spread by what insect?

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

3. Human trials of Albert Sabin's oral polio vaccine began in what year?

4. Where in Bolivia did Ron MacKenzie travel in order to investigate a disease in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

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

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