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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what does Osterholm say is NOT part of the public health agenda?
(a) Preventing death.
(b) Figuring out the causes of diseases.
(c) Curing babies of illness.
(d) Developing new vaccinations for diseases.

2. In what American city did one case of Ebola send shockwaves in 2015?
(a) Dallas, Texas.
(b) San Francisco, California.
(c) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(d) Chicago, Illinois.

3. What does Osterholm identify as the first pathogen of pandemic potential in Chapter 4?
(a) Marburg.
(b) Influenza.
(c) Penicillin.
(d) Coronavirus.

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

5. What is one way in which a person's immune system can overreact to a pathogen?
(a) By producing too many red blood cells.
(b) By producing cancer cells.
(c) By producing a cytokine storm.
(d) By cutting back production of microbiome cells.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which 2004 report summarized the scientific community's concerns about bioterrorism?

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

3. What was the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) known informally as when Osterholm was in medical school?

4. Why did President Nixon curtail the American offensive bioprogram in 1969?

5. Which professional was responsible for naming the HIV/AIDS virus in the early 1980s?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the Introduction, what are the two metaphors for disease that Osterholm sets out for use throughout the book?

2. In Chapter 1, why does the CDC's Jim Curran move quickly to name the AIDS disease as it is named?

3. Who is considered one of the first creators of the vaccine, and what illness did this person discover the earliest form of the vaccine for?

4. What were the two relatively rare conditions doctors began seeing in patients at the outset of the AIDS epidemic?

5. What is one sometimes fatal reaction the human body has to microbes, especially in those with strong immune systems?

6. What is one of the factors Osterholm thinks contributed to the anti-vaccine movement?

7. In Chapter 4, what does Osterholm reveal as what he thinks is the probable cause of the world's next pandemic?

8. What does Osterholm view as the scariest means of transmission for microbes, and why?

9. In Chapter 1, what is the term Osterholm uses for an event that comes as a surprise and is a major disrupting influence on society?

10. What are two major diseases the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has put large amounts of money into developing vaccines for?

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