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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11: Hatari: Vinidogodogo and Chapter 12: Feminine Hygiene.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who knew to drastically increase ______________.
(a) Food.
(b) Antibiotics.
(c) Fluids.
(d) Pain killers.

2. The disease that Ron MacKenzie went to Bolivia to investigate in Chapter 1: "Machupo" was dubbed by local doctors as ____________.
(a) The Black Typhus.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Schistosomiasis.
(d) Measles.

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

4. In 1967, an outbreak of an unknown virus occurred in which location?
(a) Toronto, Canada.
(b) Marburg, Germany.
(c) Sussex, England.
(d) Sydney, Australia.

5. What was the confirmed source of the first epidemic of Legionnaire's disease?
(a) Air conditioning.
(b) Mosquitos.
(c) Bad plumbing.
(d) Mouse feces.

Short Answer Questions

1. The WHO created the Declaration of Alma-Ata which sought to unite the world in a push to create healthy living conditions for everyone by what year?

2. Kaposi's sarcoma was originally described by Moritz Kaposi in what year?

3. What profession did Karl Johnson's fiancee have, as described in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

4. What refers to an epidemic of an infectious disease that is spreading through human populations across a large region?

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

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