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

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

3. 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?
(a) Zafran.
(b) Ambiel.
(c) Celebrit.
(d) Thalidomide.

4. How many West African children were orphaned by the Ebola outbreak in 2014?
(a) About 100,000.
(b) About 10,000.
(c) About 50,000.
(d) About 30,000.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Dr. Sean Wasserman worry there might be another yellow fever outbreak in the near future?

2. What does Osterholm say is currently the most important vector-borne virus disease that affects humans?

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

4. Which book did Rachel Carson write that raised questions about the safety of commonly used chemicals to kill mosquitoes?

5. Which animal does Osterholm think helped spread MERS to humans?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Osterholm write that Zika is the first example of in his career in public health?

2. In Chapter 14, what does Osterholm remember Dr. Hausler for, especially during a difficult personal episode for Osterholm?

3. Why does Osterholm claim a personal stake in studying mosquito-borne illnesses?

4. Which bacteria does Osterholm cite as killing more people in America each year than the AIDS virus, and where do most of them pick up the infection?

5. In Chapter 18, what does John Barry, author of The Great Influenza, say is the first thing to understand about influenza?

6. In Chapter 13, what was one of the missteps Osterholm criticizes China for in the early days of the SARS outbreak?

7. In Chapter 12, why does Osterholm think President Obama's choice of Ron Klain to head his Ebola task force in 2014 was inspired?

8. What was the most serious complication of the Zika virus that merged in the Americas in 2015?

9. In Chapter 12, what is one of the theories about how the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa began?

10. In Chapter 17, what is one remedy for antibiotic-resistant infections that Osterholm says will be more difficult, but not impossible, to develop?

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