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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What was the average life-expectancy in the United States in 2009?
(a) 85 years.
(b) 90 years.
(c) 80 years.
(d) 78 years.

4. In Chapter 14, what does Osterholm's father do that devastates Osterholm?
(a) Destroys some of Osterholm's lab equipment.
(b) Injures Osterholm's mother.
(c) Injures Osterholm so that he can not play sports any longer.
(d) Injures Osterholm's sister.

5. Osterholm notes in Chapter 17 that in his experience, what gets acted upon is related to which of the following?
(a) What gets counted.
(b) What scares enough people.
(c) What gets the right person's attention.
(d) What gets money.

6. Who is the National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, named for?
(a) Dr. E.G. Cummings.
(b) Dr. Walter Reed.
(c) Dr. Arnold Ashe.
(d) Dr. Gerald Heil.

7. What is a term meaning that a pathogen causes severe and fatal disease?
(a) Stark mark.
(b) Black-out potential.
(c) Death-potential.
(d) High-pathogenicity.

8. What are bacteriophages?
(a) Bacteria that have been altered in labs to target viruses.
(b) Bateria that eat only iron.
(c) Viruses that can infect and kill certain bacteria.
(d) Bacteria that have been extinct for a long time.

9. Where did the 2012 outbreak of MERS seem to originate?
(a) Israel.
(b) Morocco.
(c) Saudi Arabia.
(d) Egypt.

10. What are the independent pieces of DNA that bacteria can sometimes share with each other?
(a) Brokers.
(b) Quarks.
(c) Cones.
(d) Plasmids.

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

12. How long had researchers known about the Zika virus before the 2016 outbreak?
(a) About 10 years.
(b) About 70 years.
(c) About 200 years.
(d) About 20 years.

13. What is the problem with the vaccine for yellow fever?
(a) It can not be administered to people under the age of 25.
(b) It causes serious side effects.
(c) We do not have enough of it for those who would need it in a large-scale outbreak.
(d) It is far too expensive to be used widely.

14. In the 1918 flu epidemic, which population suffered a disproportionately high number of deaths?
(a) Young people.
(b) Women.
(c) Old people.
(d) Spanish people.

15. What did Dr. Anne Schuchat say about the tools we had to fight SARS in 2003?
(a) They are all very expensive.
(b) They are entirely dependent on a successful vaccine.
(c) They are dependent on people adhering to social distancing guidelines.
(d) They were the same ones we have had for hundreds of years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do we need a new flu vaccine formula every year?

2. When was Dengue first identified?

3. Who led President Obama's Ebola response effort?

4. How many West African children were orphaned by the Ebola outbreak in 2014?

5. What possibility about Ebola was Osterholm criticized for bringing up in a 2014 op-ed in the New York Times?

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