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Question 1

Which of the following, like HIV, is an RNA virus that is constantly changing its appearance and adept at eluding recognition by the human immune system?

Answer 1

Influenza

Question 2

(True of False) Several studies have found the circumcision protects men against contracting HIV from infected women.

Answer 2

true

Question 3

(True of False) The HIV virus is unable to be transmitted to breast-fed babies through their mother’s milk.

Answer 3

false

Question 4

(True of False) For many patients, HIV infection has become a chronic disease, necessitating life-long therapy but enabling them to live a relatively normal life.

Answer 4

true

Question 5

(True of False) In the United States, by 2016, approximately 400,000 people had died from AIDS.

Answer 5

false

Question 6

(True of False) Both kinds of human retroviruses discovered before HIV caused forms of leukemia.

Answer 6

true

Question 7

(True of False) HIV infections are especially insidious because HIV attacks T4 cells, which, among other things, would otherwise regulate the body’s fight against HIV.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

(True of False) Lyme disease is caused by a bacterium that probably first evolved in the 20th century.

Answer 8

false

Question 9

(True of False) The prevalence of group A strep has increased markedly in recent years for unknown reasons.

Answer 9

true

Question 10

In the early 1800s, tuberculosis caused about 1 death in ________________ in the United States.

Answer 10

5

Question 11

A kind of institution that contributed to the steady decline in mortality due to tuberculosis in the United States was the ________________.

Answer 11

sanitorium

Question 12

Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome and fatal familial insomnia are extremely rare genetic diseases that are linked to ________________.

Answer 12

prions

Question 13

Interferes with the replication of HIV by inhibiting the enzyme that copies the viral RNA into the cell’s DNA

Answer 13

Zidovudine (AZT)

Question 14

Interfere with the ability of newly formed viruses to mature and become infectious

Answer 14

Protease Inhibitors

Question 15

Can reduce viral load to undetectable levels in the blood and body fluids of many patients

Answer 15

Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART)

Question 16

Interfere with HIV’s ability to enter a host cell

Answer 16

Fusion Inhibitors

Question 17

Hantavirus

Answer 17

deer mice

Question 18

dengue fever

Answer 18

mosquitoes

Question 19

monkeypox

Answer 19

prairie dogs

Question 20

of second-hand smoke death

Answer 20

35,000

Question 21

True/ False the rate of cirrhosis liver declined by half in 1910

Answer 21

true

Question 22

true/false The political power of gay men was much stronger than the power of prostitution

Answer 22

true

Question 23

Which president started the just say no anti-drug campaign

Answer 23

President Regean