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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to the disease fighting white blood cells that help the immune system fight off infection?
(a) G-cells.
(b) T-cells.
(c) D-cells.
(d) P-cells.

2. Who wrote the Preface to The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance?
(a) Uwe Brinkmann.
(b) Johnathan Mann.
(c) Fred Murphy.
(d) Laurie Garrett

3. In molecular biology and genetics, ___________ refer to changes in a genomic sequence.
(a) Antivirals.
(b) Antibodies.
(c) Disease.
(d) Mutations.

4. Laurie Garrett researched for The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance as a fellow at what institution?
(a) The Harvard School of Public Health.
(b) The University of California, Santa Cruz.
(c) The University of California, Los Angeles.
(d) The Yale Public Health Academy.

5. Human trials of Albert Sabin's oral polio vaccine began in what year?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1957.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where in Bolivia did Ron MacKenzie travel in order to investigate a disease in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

2. In Chapter 4: "Into the Woods," the author writes that Uwe Brinkmann, Bernhard Mandrella, Adam Cargill, and three nurses were taken to an isolated facility in which location?

3. After the woman that researchers tracked the outbreak of the Lassa virus to had been hospitalized, how many people became ill in Chapter 4?

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

5. In the book's Preface, the author writes that the vulnerability of the world is increased due to which of the following?

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