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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Yambuku.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Soon after the funeral of the first victim in Chapter 5, the mission was filled with the disease and some of the mission nurses were sent to ______________ to recover.
(a) Tanzania.
(b) Zaire.
(c) South Sudan.
(d) Thailand.

3. Following Kent Campbell's recovery, he was sent to investigate the Lassa outbreak in ______________.
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) Spain.
(d) Poland.

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?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1969.

5. Where did Ron MacKenzie return after taking blood samples in Bolivia in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Ecuador.
(c) Panama.
(d) Argentina.

Short Answer Questions

1. Author Laurie Garrett refers to Karl Johnson and Ron MacKenzie as the first _______ in Chapter 1: "Machupo."

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

3. Karl Johnson's team placed ___________ across the village of San Joaquin in order to help eradicate the Manchupo virus in Chapter 1: "Machupo."

4. To what do the initials "DNA" refer?

5. Joe McCormick was dispatched to what location to investigate the epidemic of the Ebola virus?

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