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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does AIDS stand for?
2. When was penicillin first discovered?
3. When was the term antibiotic first coined?
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. What refers to compulsory isolation, typically to contain the spread of something considered dangerous, often disease?
Short Essay Questions
1. What led to Lily Pinneo's blood being used for antibodies?
2. What impact did the outbreak of Legionnaires' disease have on United States policy? Where did the outbreak occur?
3. What was the CDC's response to the swine flu epidemic? What resistance was met?
4. What viruses made impacts in the United States, according to the author in Chapter 6: "American Bicentennial"? When did they occur?
5. How is modernization defined? What are the effects of modernization according to the author in the Introduction?
6. Where, aside from Jos, did Lassa virus epidemics occur? What was the source of the disease?
7. Who wrote the book's Preface? What does the author relate to the reader about the message and subject of the book?
8. What caused the overpopulation of field mice in San Joaquin?
9. What were Karl Johnson and Ron MacKenzie's first impressions of Bolivian hemorrhagic fever? What did the disease resemble?
10. What led to the death of Dr. Troup? Where was the source of the virus determined to be from?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss the work of Merl Kuns and Al Wieden during the epidemic of Bolivian hemorrhagic fever, and the setting and geography of San Joaquin, Bolivia. How did the malnutrition of the villagers impact the spread of disease? How were living conditions tied to the disease?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss Ron MacKenzie, Karl Johnson, and the outbreak of Bolivian hemorrhagic fever. What symptoms of the disease were similar to Junin? What role did the CDC play in disease prevention? What role did the World Health Organization play?
Essay Topic 3
Define and discuss genetic engineering, slow viruses, retroviruses and oncogenes. When did the greatest developments in genetic engineering take place? How did these developments change the way scientists viewed viruses and bacteria?
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