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Describe some early forms of human biowarfare: Catapulting corpses of plague victims into besieged cities, dipping arrows in dead things... Mention four major infectious diseases that the Spanish brought to the Americas Smallpox, measles, Influenza, typhus, malaria What was the Columbian ...

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ANBI 139 final Questions and
Answers (100% Pass)
Describe some early forms of human biowarfare:


✓ Catapulting corpses of plague victims into besieged cities, dipping

arrows in dead things...




Mention four major infectious diseases that the Spanish brought to the

Americas


✓ Smallpox, measles, Influenza, typhus, malaria




What was the Columbian Exchange?


✓ An exchange of species between Europe and the Americas involving

countless crops, animals and diseases.




How did the genetics of Native American put them at a disadvantage in the


face of newly imported infections?


✓ The Native American gene pool was limited due to bottlenecks

associated with the settlement of the continents.




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What aspect of an infectious pathogen most determines if it will lead to an

epidemic?


✓ R0 or R naught, the number of people that each infected person will

infect on average.




What fraction of the native American population perished from European

diseases?


✓ 60 to 90 %




Which part of the world was known as White Man's Grave


✓ West Africa.




Which important medicine allowed white men to survive in West Africa


✓ Jesuit bark or Quinine




What are the arguments for and against opium as a bioweapon?


✓ Opium itself doesn't kill or maim, but the drug exploits the strong

tendency of most humans to get strongly addicted to its consumption.




What is opium and how is it produced?




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✓ : A strongly addictive drug produced from the milky sap of the poppy

flower seed pod




Give an example of a current Opium War.


✓ Afghanistan or Mexico producing opium for export




Name two important disease that were brought to the America with the slave

trade


✓ Falciparum Malaria and Yellow fever.




How did freed Haitian rebels weaponize mosquitoes against French troops?


✓ They let new arrivals camp in low-lying swamps for several weeks,

before attacking them once they got malaria or yellow fever.




What is the Geneva Protocol of 1925?


✓ An international agreement banning the use of chemical and

bacteriological weapons.




Which country tested and utilized bioweapons during world war II?


✓ Imperial Japan




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