Answer Options:
800,000
2 million
8 million
200,000
Answer: 800,000
Question: Who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for the discovery of the malaria parasite life cycle?
Answer Options:
Ronald Ross
Robert Koch
Louis Pasteur
Walter Reed
Answer: Ronald Ross
Question: Which micronutrient deficiency is associated with blindness, child mortality and maternal mortality?
Answer Options:
Vitamin A
zinc
iron
iodine
Answer: Vitamin A
Question: Malaria is caused by __________.
Answer Options:
members of the protozoan genus Plasmodium.
mosquitoes
a viral pathogen
a bacterial pathogen
Answer: members of the protozoan genus Plasmodium.
Question: What does the term malaria mean?
Answer Options:
Answer: ‘Mal’ – bad; ‘aria’ – air
Question: According to the World Food Programme, there is enough food in the world for everyone.
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True
False
Answer: True
Question: Which of these statements is incorrect?
Answer Options:
Answer: Only humans can suffer from malaria
Question: World health officials estimate that about ________ of people who are infected will ever develop TB. And, this may occur many years after initial infection.
Answer Options:
50%
10%
Answer: 10%
Question: Today, about ________ of the global population has a latent TB infection.
Answer Options:
25%
50%
75%
10%
Answer: 25%
Question: What does the term malaria mean?
Answer Options:
‘Mal’ – bad; ‘aria’ – air
‘Mal’ – bad; ‘aria’ – breath
‘Mal’ – bad; ‘aria’ – Italian opera song
‘Mal’ – bad; ‘aria’ – smell
Answer: ‘Mal’ – bad; ‘aria’ – air
Question: What is the number 1 health problem in the world?
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AIDS
hunger
TB (tuberculosis)
heart disease
Answer: TB (tuberculosis)
Question: What percentage of the world’s hungry people are themselves farmers?
Answer Options:
Answer: 50
Question: The number of malnourished people in the world is equal to:
Answer Options:
The population of all of the above, combined
The number of malnourished people the US, Canada, and the EU combined. The numbers show the population of undernourished is just under 1 billion people—nearly a seventh of the global population.
The population of the United States.
The population of the European Union
The population of Canada.
Answer: The population of all of the above, combined
Question: According to Sonia Shah, this is the “greatest mistake ever made in public health”:
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Answer: The post WW2 campaign to eradicate malaria.
Question: Which one of the following are NOT antimalarial compounds?
Answer Options:
Penicillin
Artemisinin
Chloroquine
Mefloquine
Quinine
Answer: Penicillin
Question: Malaria is caused by ________.
Answer Options:
Answer: members of the protozoan genus Plasmodium.
Question: Which of the following genetic conditions affects the beta-globin chain of hemoglobin?
Answer Options:
Answer: Sickle Cell Anemia