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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. Where did Osterholm grow up?
(a) Waukon, Iowa.
(b) Marshall, Ohio.
(c) Walker, Wisconsin.
(d) New Mahoning, Pennsylvania.

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. What turned out to be causing the diarrheal illness in Minnesota that Osterholm investigated in 1984?
(a) Bacteria from a peanut-processing plant.
(b) Bacteria in raw milk.
(c) Pathogens on spinach.
(d) Pathogens on canteloupes.

4. What is one of the two metaphors Osterholm uses for fighting viruses throughout the book?
(a) War.
(b) Envy.
(c) Famine.
(d) Pestilence.

5. In what year did the CDC recommended universal HIV screening?
(a) 1998.
(b) 2000.
(c) 2006.
(d) 1992.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can anthrax be hidden in its dried form, according to Osterholm?

2. About how much money is spent on AIDS vaccine research every year?

3. What is one antibiotic commonly used to threat anthrax?

4. Who was the George W. Bush-era Health and Human Services Secretary Osterholm has worked closely with?

5. What type of pneumonia did doctors begin to see in early HIV/AIDS patients?

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