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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. Who was on the team that Patricia Webb built to travel to Yambuku?
(a) Uwe Brinkmann.
(b) Selman Waksman.
(c) Joel Breman.
(d) Johnathan Mann.

2. Lyme disease was first discovered when a number of cases were identified in what year?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1988.

3. What is a virus that is duplicated in a host cell using the reverse transcriptase enzyme to produce DNA from its RNA genome?
(a) Retrovirus.
(b) Slow virus.
(c) Omnivirus.
(d) Polyvirus.

4. Who was treating Bernhard Mandrella for the Lassa virus when he met Kent Campbell?
(a) David Sencer.
(b) Al Wieden.
(c) Uwe Brinkmann.
(d) Jay Butler.

5. Ron MacKenzie and Karl Johnson both thought the Bolivian disease was much like a Latin American virus called what in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?
(a) Measles.
(b) The Black Typhus.
(c) Junin.
(d) Swine Flu.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who had treated a similar disease in __________.

2. Chapter 1: "Machupo," Karl Johnson found himself deathly ill with what disease?

3. The first polio vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk and first tested in what year?

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?

5. An increase in sand flies resulted in an increase in what disease, according to the author in Chapter 9?

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