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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. Who is one of the leading independent journalists on public health, according to Osterholm in Chapter 16?
(a) Colleen O'Mahr.
(b) Marshall Winchell.
(c) Maryn McKenna.
(d) Lola Navado.

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

3. In Chapter 15, what analogy does Osterholm use for Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases?
(a) A marathon.
(b) Trench warfare.
(c) An uphill battle.
(d) A fight against crime.

4. Which illness did Osterholm initially fear his son might have contracted in Chapter 14?
(a) Bacterial meningitis.
(b) Influenza.
(c) SARS.
(d) Marburg.

5. What illness did Osterholm's son turn out to have in Chapter 14?
(a) Ebola.
(b) Dengue fever.
(c) Cholera.
(d) La Crosse encephalitis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which organ did an American health care worker harbor Ebola virus in for quite a while after he had been cured of the disease?

2. Where do the mosquitoes that carried the illness that affected Osterholm's son in Chapter 14 usually live?

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?

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

5. Who wrote the book The Great Influenza?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the likely origin of the MERS outbreak that began in 2012?

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

4. Why does Osterholm believe the public is so fearful of diseases like Ebola?

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

6. Why did so many young, healthy people die in the 1918 flu epidemic?

7. What is one of Osterholm's fears about how a virus like Ebola could possibly mutate to become worse?

8. What are the two types of dengue disease Osterholm describes in Chapter 14?

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

10. Why does Osterholm argue that cancer and heart disease kill so many more people today than they did a century ago?

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