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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) 2100.
(b) 2050.
(c) 1995.
(d) 2000.

2. In Chapter 14, Johnathan Mann of the WHO Global Program on AIDS addressed a gathering of over a thousand in what city?
(a) Rome.
(b) Berlin.
(c) London.
(d) Brussels.

3. What disease did children with malaria contract after being required to have nearly complete blood transfusions?
(a) Measles.
(b) Schistosomiasis.
(c) Junin.
(d) HIV.

4. The Black Plague reached its peak in Europe between what years?
(a) 1348-1350.
(b) 1675-1678.
(c) 1491-1497.
(d) 1221-1222.

5. To what drugs was the herpes epidemic resistant?
(a) Superviral.
(b) Antiviral.
(c) Omnibacterial.
(d) Antibacterial.

6. What was the third social epidemic noted by WHO?
(a) Repression of those with the plague.
(b) Fear of the plague.
(c) Acceptance of the plague.
(d) Denial of the plague.

7. What refers to an epidemic of an infectious disease that is spreading through human populations across a large region?
(a) Pandemic.
(b) Sociopath.
(c) Extermination.
(d) Arythmia.

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

9. In Russia, a poor health care system that was impoverished following the fall of Communism forced the reuse of _______________.
(a) Transfusion apparatus.
(b) Surgical gloves.
(c) Syringes.
(d) Specimen vials.

10. East and West Germany merged in what year, causing AIDS to strike fiercely?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1984.

11. The epidemics of what disease increased due to the Aswan High Dam inhibiting the natural fluctuations in water height?
(a) Swine Flu.
(b) Yellow fever.
(c) Schistosomiasis.
(d) Malaria.

12. The WHO Global Program on AIDS noted three social epidemics within the biological one of AIDS. What was the first of these social epidemics?
(a) Fear of the plague.
(b) Repression of those with the plague.
(c) Acceptance of the plague.
(d) Denial of the plague.

13. What was the second social epidemic noted by the WHO?
(a) Acceptance of the plague.
(b) Fear of the plague.
(c) Denial of the plague.
(d) Repression of those with the plague.

14. What refers to a process by which thermal radiation is absorbed by atmospheric greenhouse gases and then re-radiated in all directions?
(a) Coriolis effect.
(b) Ohm's law.
(c) Pythagoreas effect.
(d) Greenhouse effect.

15. In Chapter 13: "Revenge of the Germs," by what year were many viruses resistant to antibiotics, including the staph infection?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1993.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hantaviruses are carried by what type of animal?

2. What did GRID stand for when it was first applied to the AIDS epidemic?

3. By what year did the World Bank see the need for better health care in poorly developed countries?

4. Blackwater fever was caused by the overuse of what substance?

5. What country had further issues with the AIDS epidemic in that two separate strains of the disease were erupting?

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