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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17: Searching for Solutions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lyme disease is an emerging infectious disease caused by at least three species of bacteria belonging to what genus?
(a) Junin.
(b) Borrelia.
(c) Pneumocystis.
(d) Schistosomiasis.

2. By what year did the World Bank see the need for better health care in poorly developed countries?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1982.

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

4. What organ does tuberculosis usually attack?
(a) Kidneys.
(b) Heart.
(c) Brain.
(d) Lung.

5. What concept stated that as nations moved out of poverty and basic needs were met, scientists could use pharmaceutical and chemical tools to wipe out parasites, bacteria, and viruses?
(a) Healthy Investments.
(b) The Health Transition.
(c) The Wealthy Cleansing.
(d) Banking on Doctors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leprosy has affected humanity for over how many years?

2. What leader in infectious disease was called in to test the deadly virus against samples of thousands of viruses in his lab in Chapter 3: "Monkey Kidneys and the Ebbing Tides"?

3. The hantavirus was first discovered during what war?

4. Which United States Representative showed that the poor areas of India were already seeing an epidemic by 1991?

5. After his work with famine relief efforts, Uwe Brinkmann was dubbed by Germans as a __________.

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