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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Chapters 12 - 14).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one antibiotic commonly used to threat anthrax?
(a) Ambigen.
(b) Penicillin.
(c) Ciprofloxacin.
(d) Corilot.

2. What disease did Edward Jenner help discover the first means of vaccination for?
(a) Measles.
(b) Smallpox.
(c) Mumps.
(d) Polio.

3. 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 find new vaccines for use in the developing world.
(c) Try to foster public health information-sharing between countries.
(d) Emphasize that it is the health of the individual that is the most important.

4. What bestelling book did Richard Preston write in 1994?
(a) Contagion.
(b) The Hot Zone.
(c) OUtbreak.
(d) The Shining.

5. Which advisor of Osterholm's does Osterholm remember as being particularly kind and empathetic towards him in Chapter 14?
(a) Dr. Anthony Fauci.
(b) Dr. William Hausler.
(c) Dr. James Curran.
(d) Dr. Samuel Clemens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which organization was focused on eradicating yellow fever as early as 1915?

2. In Chapter 5, where does Osterholm point out there are the most microbes in the human body?

3. What does means of transmission mean in terms of viruses?

4. How many people does the WHO estimate might be infected with latent tuberculosis?

5. Which 2004 report summarized the scientific community's concerns about bioterrorism?

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