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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the CDC founded?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1867.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1984.

2. What does the acronym WHO stand for?
(a) World Health Organization.
(b) Wellness and Health Organization.
(c) Women's Health Operation.
(d) Wholesome and Holistic Outlook.

3. By what decade does the author write that AIDS was an epidemic in the book's Introduction?
(a) 1950's.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 1970's.
(d) 1960's.

4. When was penicillin first discovered?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1961.

5. The author of the book's Preface discusses how our time in history will be tracked by newly emerging epidemics such as __________.
(a) Malaria.
(b) HIV.
(c) Yellow fever.
(d) Dengue fever.

Short Answer Questions

1. Karl Johnson worked with whom to create a portable lab to keep airborne disease from infecting the doctors in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

2. The yellow fever epidemic was rampant in areas of West Africa and was spread by what insect?

3. What term refers to a disease created as a result of medical treatment?

4. Human trials of Albert Sabin's oral polio vaccine began in what year?

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

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