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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 refers to the disease fighting white blood cells that help the immune system fight off infection?
2. When Johnson and MacKenzie became ill in Chapter 1: "Machupo," they were saved by a doctor who knew to drastically increase ______________.
3. Who wrote the Preface to The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance?
4. The first epidemic of Legionnaires' disease occurred during what month in the year 1976?
5. How many deaths were reported from the first epidemic of Legionnaires' disease in 1976?
Short Essay Questions
1. With whom did Karl Johnson work to develop a safety measure for the doctors in Bolivia in Chapter 1: "Machupo"? What was found in San Joaquin?
2. What impact did the outbreak of Legionnaires' disease have on United States policy? Where did the outbreak occur?
3. What did the World Health Organization discover to be the source of the Marburg disease? Who was called in for further research?
4. What was the CDC's response to the swine flu epidemic? What resistance was met?
5. What were Karl Johnson and Ron MacKenzie's first impressions of Bolivian hemorrhagic fever? What did the disease resemble?
6. Where, aside from Jos, did Lassa virus epidemics occur? What was the source of the disease?
7. What did the Centers for Disease Control do upon learning of the Ebola epidemic?
8. Whom does the author describe in the book's Introduction? What questions does she present as indications of her life's work?
9. What backlash did the CDC meet after vaccinating against swine flu?
10. Where was Peter Piot sent to research Ebola? Who worked with the CDC in Atlanta?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe Uwe Brinkmann, Bernhard Mandrella, Adam Cargill, the Lassa virus, and the facility in Germany where the researchers were quarantined. What symptoms did those infected exhibit? Where did the virus originate and how many were infected?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Describe and discuss the current epidemics in the world and solutions to future epidemics as based on the book's preface and the concepts of Johnathan Mann. What are the causes for greater risks of epidemics today than ten years ago? In what ways have these developments helped society and in what ways have they hindered it?
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