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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Chapters 19 - 21).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which public health organization or government agency is in charge of mosquito control today, according to Osterholm?
(a) The Department of Homeland Security.
(b) Health and Human Services.
(c) The Department of Agriculture.
(d) Not one.

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

4. What kind of deadly flu strain caused an outbreak on Midwest poultry farms in the U.S. in 2015?
(a) H3N1.
(b) H1N1.
(c) H5N2.
(d) H2N3.

5. Who identified the influenza virus in 1933?
(a) Dr. James Curran.
(b) Dr. Richard E. Shope.
(c) Dr. Edward Jenner.
(d) Dr. John Snow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of graph do epidemiologists use to try to figure out what threats they should be worrying about in public health?

2. Where did the 2012 outbreak of MERS seem to originate?

3. What was the Supreme Court Ruling in the 1905 Jacobson v. Massachusetts case?

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

5. What drug did some of the birth defects caused by the Zika virus remind some health care professionals of that had also caused birth defects?

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