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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. According to the author in Chapter 2: "Health Transition," the efforts to eradicate _______ actually made the disease more rampant.

2. Karl Johnson worked with whom to create a portable lab to keep airborne disease from infecting the doctors in Chapter 1: "Machupo"?

3. When was the term antibiotic first coined?

4. The first epidemic of Legionnaires' disease occurred during what month in the year 1976?

5. What was the confirmed source of the first epidemic of Legionnaire's disease?

Short Essay Questions

1. What caused the overpopulation of field mice in San Joaquin?

2. What were Karl Johnson and Ron MacKenzie's first impressions of Bolivian hemorrhagic fever? What did the disease resemble?

3. How did Del Conn contract disease while studying in Zaire? What difficulties did he encounter in leaving the country?

4. What did Karl Johnson's team discover to be the source of Bolivian hemorrhagic fever? What was done to eradicate the disease?

5. What led to the wane of study on parasitic disease? What discoveries were changing the way scientists viewed infectious viruses?

6. Where was Peter Piot sent to research Ebola? Who worked with the CDC in Atlanta?

7. What viruses made impacts in the United States, according to the author in Chapter 6: "American Bicentennial"? When did they occur?

8. What did Karl Johnson contract in the beginning of Chapter 1: "Machupo"? Who had traveled to Bolivia and what did this scientist find upon his arrival?

9. In Chapter 2, how does author Laurie Garrett describe the evolution of healthcare following the introduction of antibiotics?

10. What did the Centers for Disease Control do upon learning of the Ebola epidemic?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Describe and analyze the work of Dr. Jeanette Troup and Lily Pinneo. Where were Troup and Pinneo when they encountered the Lassa virus? Why did Pinneo recover from her infection? Who was given transfusions of Pinneo's blood and what reaction did they have?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss and analyze the history and origins of the flu virus and swine flu. When was the swine flu virus discovered and how did this discovery impact its eradication? Also discuss Richard Shope and the CDC's attempts to develop vaccinations for the virus. Why did the researchers meet with resistance?

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