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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. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the study of parasites and tropical disease waned because in post-WWII health care, there was a shift to eradicate __________ from the planet.
(a) Rats.
(b) Cats.
(c) Monkeys.
(d) Microbes.

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

3. What term refers to a disease created as a result of medical treatment?
(a) Infection.
(b) Iatrogenic.
(c) Retrovirus.
(d) Pandemic.

4. What is the condition that results from taking an unbalanced diet in which certain nutrients are lacking?
(a) Malnutrition.
(b) Bulimia.
(c) Epilepsy.
(d) Antibody.

5. In 1967, an outbreak of an unknown virus occurred in which location?
(a) Sussex, England.
(b) Toronto, Canada.
(c) Sydney, Australia.
(d) Marburg, Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 1: "Machupo," Karl Johnson found himself deathly ill with what disease?

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

3. 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?

4. Laurie Garrett earned her undergraduate degree in biology from what institution?

5. When was the CDC founded?

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