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

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

3. What is the nickname some in the media started giving to Osterholm?
(a) Bad News Mike.
(b) Mike the Tank.
(c) Mike the Great.
(d) Mike the Smart.

4. What kind of creatures are mosquitos?
(a) Mammals.
(b) Arachnids.
(c) Amphibians.
(d) Arthropods.

5. In Chapter 5, where does Osterholm point out there are the most microbes in the human body?
(a) The ear.
(b) The gut microbiome.
(c) The heart.
(d) The thigh muscle.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the end of July in 2015, what was the Korean MERS death toll?

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

3. What company did Bill Gates found?

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

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

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