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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. Author Laurie Garrett refers to Karl Johnson and Ron MacKenzie as the first _______ in Chapter 1: "Machupo."
(a) Viral explorers.
(b) Medical juggernauts.
(c) Disease cowboys.
(d) Scientific geniouses.

2. What does CDC stand for?
(a) Cancer and Disease Center.
(b) Corporate Disease Control.
(c) Center for Destroying Cancer.
(d) Centers for Disease Control.

3. To what do the initials "DNA" refer?
(a) Deoxyribonucleic acid.
(b) Deterioration of nerve acid.
(c) Dental nerve activity.
(d) Destructive neurological action.

4. Author Laurie Garrett was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1996 for a series of works published in what publication?
(a) Newsday.
(b) USA Today.
(c) The Chicago Sun Times.
(d) The LA Times.

5. The term antibiotic was coined by whom?
(a) Selman Waksman.
(b) Roger Jamsek.
(c) Gerald Kimbel.
(d) Steven Lyman.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what decade does the author write that AIDS was an epidemic in the book's Introduction?

2. When does the author write that the Institute of Medicine convened a panel to discuss the severity of a microbial threat to United States citizens in the Introduction?

3. To what do the initials "RNA" refer?

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

5. DNA was first isolated by what Swiss physician?

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