Answer Options:
25 cents
one dollar
50 cents
75 cents
Answer: 25 cents
Question: Why are men more likely to have G6PDH (glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase) deficiency than women?
Answer Options:
It is an X-linked trait.
Men are more likely exposed to the environmental factors that trigger the deficiency.
This is a hormone-related condition.
Answer: It is an X-linked trait.
Question: Which region has the greatest number of hungry people?
Answer Options:
Asia and the Pacific
Africa
Latin America and the Caribbean
Middle East
Answer: Asia and the Pacific
Question: In 2015, Tu Youyou became the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology. Which antimalarial compound is she credited with discovering?
Answer Options:
Answer: Artemisinin
Question: During World War 2, the US Army issued primaquine as a preventive measure to soldiers serving in areas where malaria was common. About 10% of the soldiers who took primaquine developed acute hemolytic anemia and some even died. What caused the bad side effect?
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Answer: The soldiers had a genetic condition called G6PD (glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase) deficiency.
Question: Dr. Edward Trudeau was developer of the first sanitarium in the US.
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In Dr. Trudeau’s Sanitarium, _________ patients survived.
only 1/3
About 50%
less than 10%
Over 90%
Answer: About 50%
Question: Which one of the following are NOT antimalarial compounds?
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Answer: Penicillin
Question: According to Sonia Shah, this is the “greatest mistake ever made in public health”:
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The post WW2 campaign to eradicate malaria.
The promotion of bed nets to combat malaria.
Indoor spraying of DDT.
Answer: The post WW2 campaign to eradicate malaria.
Question: According to the WHO, how many people are at risk of contracting malaria throughout the world?
Answer Options:
3.2 billion people
More than 40 percent of the world’s population is at risk. These countries would include Central and South Americas, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Africa, India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Oceania.
1.2 billion people
6 billion people
445,000 people
Answer: 3.2 billion people
Question: Who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for the discovery of the malaria parasite life cycle?
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Answer: Ronald Ross
Question: One of the most dramatic examples the power of evolutionary pressure from parasitic infectious diseases among human populations is the comparative resistance of most of the population of sub-Saharan Africa to P. vivax infection. All other human populations are vulnerable to this species of malaria parasite. This resistance is due to
Answer Options:
Answer: The Duffy negative phenotype
Question: In 2015, Tu Youyou became the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology.
Which antimalarial compound is she credited with discovering?
Answer Options:
Artemisinin
Chloroquine
Mefloquine
Quinine
Answer: Artemisinin
Question: In 1943, Dr. Albert Schatz, working in Selman Waksman’s laboratory, developed the first antibiotic to treat TB.
Answer Options:
streptomycin
penicillin
isoniazid
kanamycin
Answer: streptomycin
Question: Which of these statements is incorrect?
Answer Options:
Only humans can suffer from malaria
Malaria affects many different animals including birds, bats and monkeys.
Malaria was endemic in Europe, and quinine was injected into tonic water to offer protection against malaria. It has been well established that the mutation that causes sickle cell anemia offers some protection against malaria, which is why the condition is prevalent in malaria-endemic regions of the world.
Malaria was once endemic in Europe.
Tonic water was used as a prophylactic against malaria.
The sickle cell gene mutation offers some protection against malaria
Answer: Only humans can suffer from malaria