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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Health Transition and Chapter 3: Monkey Kidneys and the Ebbing Tides.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The yellow fever epidemic was rampant in areas of West Africa and was spread by what insect?
(a) The p.funtari lobster.
(b) The h. cyptamy rodent.
(c) The a. aegypti mosquito.
(d) The r. tryrmic fish.

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

3. When was the CDC founded?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1867.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1942.

4. When was penicillin first discovered?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1961.

5. When the Institute of Medicine convened a panel to discuss the severity of a microbial threat to United States citizens, many critics believed that many emerging diseases were not __________, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) Airborne.
(b) Bacterial.
(c) Viral.
(d) Communicable.

Short Answer Questions

1. Author Laurie Garrett refers to Karl Johnson and Ron MacKenzie as the first _______ in Chapter 1: "Machupo."

2. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who had treated a similar disease in __________.

3. The author of the book's Preface discusses how our time in history will be tracked by newly emerging epidemics such as __________.

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

5. Ron MacKenzie and what ecologist arrived in San Joaquin, where the locals believed the Bolivian virus was born, in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

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