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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. The yellow fever epidemic was rampant in areas of West Africa and was spread by what insect?
(a) The p.funtari lobster.
(b) The r. tryrmic fish.
(c) The h. cyptamy rodent.
(d) The a. aegypti mosquito.

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

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

4. 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) Jodi Casals.
(d) Clint Nyamurkunge.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1967, an outbreak of an unknown virus occurred in which location?

2. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who knew to drastically increase ______________.

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

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

5. When was the CDC founded?

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