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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 is a form of pneumonia caused by the yeast-like fungus Pneumocystis jirovecii?
2. Hantaviruses are carried by what type of animal?
3. What disease did children with malaria contract after being required to have nearly complete blood transfusions?
4. Johnathan Mann's team advised global education, but in the aftermath of the AIDS epidemic, many countries began to do what to immigrants with the disease?
5. What did GRID stand for when it was first applied to the AIDS epidemic?
Short Essay Questions
1. What led to the epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases amongst the gay community?
2. What were the reasons that poverty stricken areas encouraged drug resistant bacteria?
3. What was the impact of tuberculosis in America? What improved conditions?
4. What are retroviruses and oncogenes? What was discovered about them in Chapter 8: "Revolution"?
5. How does the author describe the outbreak of Lyme disease? How did human interaction impact the disease?
6. With whom did Joe McCormick meet to discuss the Lassa virus? What was this relationship like?
7. How does the author correlate the development of urban centers to the growth of disease in Chapter 9: "Microbe Magnets"?
8. How did drug use perpetuate the spread of AIDS?
9. How does the author describe the evolution of staph infections in Chapter 13: "Revenge of the Germs"?
10. What led to the outbreak of AIDS in Uganda? What was the impact of AIDS there?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Define RNA, DNA, and virus mutation, and discuss the development of the Health Transition. What was the impact of the Health Transition on third world nations? How does the author say health care changed globally after the introduction of antibiotics?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the history and development of penicillin and the Institute of Medicine's panel on AIDS in the 1990s, as examined in the book's Introduction. What was discussed at the panel and what impact did it have on the spread of AIDS? By what decade does the author write that AIDS was an epidemic in the book's Introduction?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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