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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. 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) Communicable.
(d) Viral.

2. Karl Johnson worked with whom to create a portable lab to keep airborne disease from infecting the doctors in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Al Wieden.
(b) Karl Johnson.
(c) Harold Jaffe.
(d) Peter Piot.

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

4. Within how much time was the virus now called Manchupo virus eradicated after Karl Johnson's team discovered the culprit of the epidemic in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) 4 weeks.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 12 days.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does AIDS stand for?

2. Where did Ron MacKenzie return after taking blood samples in Bolivia in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

3. The term antibiotic was coined by whom?

4. DNA was first isolated by what Swiss physician?

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

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