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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14: Thirdworldization.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Laurie Garrett researched for The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance as a fellow at what institution?
(a) The Harvard School of Public Health.
(b) The University of California, Los Angeles.
(c) The Yale Public Health Academy.
(d) The University of California, Santa Cruz.

2. 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) Banking on Doctors.
(c) The Health Transition.
(d) Healthy Investments.

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

4. What organ does tuberculosis usually attack?
(a) Brain.
(b) Heart.
(c) Lung.
(d) Kidneys.

5. What is a virus that is duplicated in a host cell using the reverse transcriptase enzyme to produce DNA from its RNA genome?
(a) Retrovirus.
(b) Polyvirus.
(c) Omnivirus.
(d) Slow virus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the Preface to The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance?

2. After the woman that researchers tracked the outbreak of the Lassa virus to had been hospitalized, how many people became ill in Chapter 4?

3. A WHO research team discovered all the original patients of the mystery disease had handled monkeys from ___________.

4. What does AIDS stand for?

5. When was the CDC founded?

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