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

2. Karl Johnson's team realized that in San Joaquin, there were no ________ as a result of DDT spraying in Chapter 1: "Machupo."
(a) Owls.
(b) Eagles.
(c) Cats.
(d) Snakes.

3. 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.

4. When the Institute of Medicine convened a panel to discuss the severity of a microbial threat to United States citizens, many critics believed that many emerging diseases were not __________, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) Communicable.
(b) Airborne.
(c) Viral.
(d) Bacterial.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Joe McCormick in Brazil overseeing a massive meningitis outbreak?

2. What was the name of Karl Johnson's fiancee who became ill after visiting him in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

3. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the efforts to eradicate _______ actually made the disease more rampant.

4. When was penicillin first discovered?

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

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