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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Chapters 19 - 21).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was President George W. Bush's emergency plan for combating AIDS?
(a) PENSIVE.
(b) PEPFAR.
(c) MORTAT.
(d) LARGEN.

2. 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.

3. Who was one of the first physicians to name and discover the SARS virus in 2003?
(a) Dr. Lou Chen.
(b) Dr. Carlo Urbani.
(c) Dr. Karen Jenkins.
(d) Dr. Hazim Nadim.

4. Who introduced the term "black swan event"?
(a) James Curtland.
(b) Nassim Nicholas.
(c) John Snow.
(d) Edward Jenner.

5. What illness were doctors in cities along the Brazilian coast seeing a dramatic increase in in 2015?
(a) Yellow fever.
(b) Marburg.
(c) Guillain-Barre.
(d) Influenza.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was there a measles outbreak in Minnesota?

2. In Chapter 18, what does Osterholm name as the king of infectious diseases?

3. What are the unchanging features of a virus called?

4. What drug did some of the birth defects caused by the Zika virus remind some health care professionals of that had also caused birth defects?

5. Which child of Osterholm's came across her sibling's unnamed case in a medical presentation while in medical school?

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