1. Globally, 40 million
people are infected with AIDS. Approximately 2.1 million of those are under the
age of 15.
A. True
B. False
2. HIV is the world’s
leading infectious killer. To date, approximately 25 million people have died
of AIDS around the world.
A. True
B. False
3. French Canadian
flight attendant Gaetan Dugas (1953-1984) is notorious for being identified as
“patient zero” for AIDS in the U.S. Dugas claims to have had over 2,500 sexual
partners across North America. However, some studies dismiss the idea that he
was Patient Zero. Instead they claim that he was a part of a cluster of
homosexual men who traveled frequently and were extremely sexually active.
A. True
B. False
4. In May 1969, an African American teenager
named Robert died from a mystery illness, which was later confirmed to be the
first known AIDS death in the USA. That he died in 1969, nearly a decade before
the country’s first known cluster of AIDS cases, suggests HIV was introduced
and reintroduced several times to the American population. It may have
initially died out for lack of a very large, very sexually active population to
transmit it.
A. True
B. False
5. Eminent British
scientist Professor Roy Anderson modeled the course of the AIDS epidemic and
estimates it will take 130 years to work though the global population.
A. True
B. False
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