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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. To what do the initials "RNA" refer?
(a) Reflexive neurological antibodies.
(b) Regenerative nerve action.
(c) Richmond Nutrition Association.
(d) Ribonucleic acid.

2. What leader in infectious disease was called in to test the deadly virus against samples of thousands of viruses in his lab in Chapter 3: "Monkey Kidneys and the Ebbing Tides"?
(a) Daniel Elmer Salmon.
(b) Uwe Brinkmann.
(c) Clint Nyamurkunge.
(d) Jodi Casals.

3. In what year was Joe McCormick in Brazil overseeing a massive meningitis outbreak?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1978.

4. What does the acronym WHO stand for?
(a) World Health Organization.
(b) Wellness and Health Organization.
(c) Women's Health Operation.
(d) Wholesome and Holistic Outlook.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Author Laurie Garrett was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1996 for a series of works published in what publication?

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

3. In molecular biology and genetics, ___________ refer to changes in a genomic sequence.

4. 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?

5. When was penicillin first discovered?

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