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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 the title of an earlier book written by Osterholm that he refers to in Chapter 8?
(a) Pathogens of Pandemic Potential.
(b) Finding the Cure.
(c) Living Terrors.
(d) Toxic Shock and its Aftermath.

2. About how much money is spent on AIDS vaccine research every year?
(a) About 100 million dollars.
(b) About one billion dollars.
(c) About 500 million dollars.
(d) About 10 million dollars.

3. What can anthrax be hidden in its dried form, according to Osterholm?
(a) Soil.
(b) Cakes.
(c) Any white powder.
(d) Flowers.

4. In Chapter 6, Osterholm emphasizes that anthrax is not which of the following kinds of diseases?
(a) Hemorrhagic.
(b) Stable.
(c) Communicable.
(d) Amorphous.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Osterholm identify as the first pathogen of pandemic potential in Chapter 4?

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

3. On whose program did the creator of the polio vaccine announce that he was not patenting the vaccine in 1955?

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

5. Which doctor was responsible for figuring out the source of a cholera outbreak in London in the 1850s?

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