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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) Scientific geniouses.
(c) Medical juggernauts.
(d) Disease cowboys.

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

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

4. In the book's Preface, the author writes that the vulnerability of the world is increased due to which of the following?
(a) Isolation of populations.
(b) Decreased populations.
(c) Modern travel.
(d) Human evolution.

5. What concept stated that as nations moved out of poverty and basic needs were met, scientists could use pharmaceutical and chemical tools to wipe out parasites, bacteria, and viruses?
(a) Healthy Investments.
(b) The Wealthy Cleansing.
(c) Banking on Doctors.
(d) The Health Transition.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Introduction, Laurie Garrett discusses the experiences of her uncle who was a doctor in what year?

2. The disease that Ron MacKenzie went to Bolivia to investigate in Chapter 1: "Machupo" was dubbed by local doctors as ____________.

3. 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.

4. What does CDC stand for?

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

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