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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the problems with the vaccine industry, according to Osterholm?

2. What was the 1918 flu epidemic commonly known as?

3. Where do about 90% of malaria deaths occur in the world?

4. Which of the following is the title of an earlier book written by Osterholm that he refers to in Chapter 8?

5. What type of pneumonia did doctors begin to see in early HIV/AIDS patients?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was the deadliest pandemic of the modern era?

4. Why was Dr. Jonas Salk such a hero to so many parents in the 1950s?

5. What common product did Osterholm and his colleagues eventually trace the development of toxic shock syndrome to?

6. What did Osterholm try to emphasize for helping stop the spread of AIDS in the mid-1980s, as separate from vaccines?

7. How was Osterholm personally affected by the AIDS epidemic?

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

9. What is the interaction between tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

According to Osterholm, what are some of the benefits of having people outside of the fields of medicine and public health, like Ron Klain and Lord Jim O'Neill, manage global health responses, programs, and/or initiatives? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

Why was the zika virus so dangerous - and different from earlier zika outbreaks - when it emerged in South American in 2016? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What are some of the reasons Osterholm puts forward to explain why new vaccine production takes so long, from start to finish? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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