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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) Uganda.
(c) Panama.
(d) Zaire.

2. Where in Bolivia did Ron MacKenzie travel in order to investigate a disease in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Quito.
(b) Lagos.
(c) Magdalena.
(d) Bogata.

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

4. Who worked with Patricia Webb on the Ebola virus in the CDC's laboratory?
(a) Merl Kuns.
(b) Joe McCormick.
(c) Fred Murphy.
(d) Ron MacKenzie.

5. To what do the initials "RNA" refer?
(a) Ribonucleic acid.
(b) Reflexive neurological antibodies.
(c) Richmond Nutrition Association.
(d) Regenerative nerve action.

Short Answer Questions

1. Author Laurie Garrett was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1996 for a series of works published in what publication?

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

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. Ron MacKenzie and what ecologist arrived in San Joaquin, where the locals believed the Bolivian virus was born, in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

5. What does the acronym WHO stand for?

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