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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Chapters 7 - 11).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is widely used to grow vaccines?
(a) Yeast.
(b) Algae.
(c) Eggs.
(d) Water.

2. What is the serious condition that the Zika virus sometimes causes in babies?
(a) Microcephaly.
(b) Epilepsy.
(c) Paralysis.
(d) Blindness.

3. What was the Supreme Court Ruling in the 1905 Jacobson v. Massachusetts case?
(a) All people who wanted to travel abroad had to have the smallpox vaccine first.
(b) The benefit of the smallpox vaccine to public health outweighed an individual's right to refuse the vaccine.
(c) Only children with religious exemptions could be allowed not to have the smallpox vaccine.
(d) All children who wanted to attend public school had to have the smallpox vaccine.

4. What does Osterholm identify as the first pathogen of pandemic potential in Chapter 4?
(a) Marburg.
(b) Influenza.
(c) Coronavirus.
(d) Penicillin.

5. What does the One Health movement strive to do?
(a) Emphasize the idea that we need to understand the health of both humans and animals to prevent human disease.
(b) Try to foster public health information-sharing between countries.
(c) Emphasize that it is the health of the individual that is the most important.
(d) Try to find new vaccines for use in the developing world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What flu strain does Osterholm call the grandfather of bird-flu viruses?

2. Who was the head of the first meeting Osterholm attended about the HIV/AIDS epidemic, before doctors knew what they were dealing with?

3. What organization did Osterholm found at the University of Minnesota?

4. Where do about 90% of malaria deaths occur in the world?

5. What was the American infant mortality rate at the turn of the twentieth century?

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