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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Chapters 15 - 18).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why did funerary practices contribute to the spread of Ebola in West Africa in 2014?
(a) The involved airborne incense that had the potential to infect others.
(b) Bodies were buried close to water supplies of villages.
(c) They involved extensive physical contact with dead bodies.
(d) They involved infected scarves.

4. Where do about 90% of malaria deaths occur in the world?
(a) India.
(b) Sub-Saharan Africa.
(c) The Middle East.
(d) America.

5. Where does Dr. Sean Wasserman worry there might be another yellow fever outbreak in the near future?
(a) Angola.
(b) Mali.
(c) Mongolia.
(d) Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which organ did an American health care worker harbor Ebola virus in for quite a while after he had been cured of the disease?

2. How many Nobel Prizes have been awarded to recipients who have contributed to the fight against malaria?

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

4. What disease did Edward Jenner help discover the first means of vaccination for?

5. In Chapter 6, Osterholm emphasizes that anthrax is not which of the following kinds of diseases?

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