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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where did the 2012 outbreak of MERS seem to originate?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Morocco.
(c) Israel.
(d) Saudi Arabia.
2. Where do the mosquitoes that carried the illness that affected Osterholm's son in Chapter 14 usually live?
(a) Deserts.
(b) Standing puddles.
(c) Tree holes.
(d) Marshes.
3. In Chapter 14, what does Osterholm's father do that devastates Osterholm?
(a) Destroys some of Osterholm's lab equipment.
(b) Injures Osterholm's sister.
(c) Injures Osterholm's mother.
(d) Injures Osterholm so that he can not play sports any longer.
4. What is the name of Osterholm's son who became ill from a mosquito-borne illness?
(a) Jonathan.
(b) Ryan.
(c) Eric.
(d) Michael.
5. What is a term meaning that a pathogen causes severe and fatal disease?
(a) High-pathogenicity.
(b) Stark mark.
(c) Death-potential.
(d) Black-out potential.
6. What happened to government interest in a SARS vaccine when the outbreak was contained by the summer of 2003?
(a) It dwindled.
(b) Interest in a vaccine shifted from government to private sector stakeholders.
(c) It intensified.
(d) Interest in a vaccine shifted from government to philanthropic entities.
7. What does Osterholm say is currently the most important vector-borne virus disease that affects humans?
(a) Cholera.
(b) MERS.
(c) Dengue.
(d) Ebola.
8. What possibility about Ebola was Osterholm criticized for bringing up in a 2014 op-ed in the New York Times?
(a) That it could mutate to become airborne.
(b) That it could mutate to become more lethal to middle-aged people.
(c) That it could mutate to become more lethal to children.
(d) That it could mutate to become more lethal to older people.
9. Who is one of the leading independent journalists on public health, according to Osterholm in Chapter 16?
(a) Lola Navado.
(b) Marshall Winchell.
(c) Maryn McKenna.
(d) Colleen O'Mahr.
10. Which book did Rachel Carson write that raised questions about the safety of commonly used chemicals to kill mosquitoes?
(a) Silent Spring.
(b) Endless Night.
(c) Killing the Land.
(d) Dark Waters.
11. What did Dr. Anne Schuchat say about the tools we had to fight SARS in 2003?
(a) They were the same ones we have had for hundreds of years.
(b) They are all very expensive.
(c) They are entirely dependent on a successful vaccine.
(d) They are dependent on people adhering to social distancing guidelines.
12. Why do we need a new flu vaccine formula every year?
(a) Flu viruses transmitted between humans are unstable, and they mutate easily.
(b) The scientists who formulate the new vaccine every year would be out of a job if they only had to do one vaccine every ten years.
(c) Flu vaccine expires quickly.
(d) The pharmaceutical companies can not store enough vaccine for several years at a time.
13. Which doctor isolated the MERS virus in the 2012 outbreak?
(a) Dr. Anne Schuchat.
(b) Dr. Carlo Urbani.
(c) Dr. Ali Mohammed Zaki.
(d) Dr. James Curran.
14. What chemical that used to be commonly used to kill mosquitoes became a public health and environmental concern as the years went on?
(a) DDT.
(b) MMR.
(c) FBG.
(d) ERA.
15. What is the title of the study former British Prime Minister David Cameron commissioned and mentioned to Barack Obama in 2016?
(a) Review on Tropical Viruses.
(b) Review on Antimicrobial Resistance.
(c) Review on Pathogens of Pandemic Potential.
(d) Review on Comorbidities in the Developing World.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which advisor of Osterholm's does Osterholm remember as being particularly kind and empathetic towards him in Chapter 14?
2. What are the independent pieces of DNA that bacteria can sometimes share with each other?
3. What are bacteriophages?
4. Osterholm notes in Chapter 17 that in his experience, what gets acted upon is related to which of the following?
5. Where was there a significant outbreak of Zika virus in 2013?
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