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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. In what year was there a measles outbreak in Minnesota?
2. Which family member of Osterholm's contracted the HIV virus through a blood transfusion in the 1980s?
3. When did Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans?
4. What does Osterholm say is the average time from vaccine development to public availability?
5. What is the nickname some in the media started giving to Osterholm?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 1, why does the CDC's Jim Curran move quickly to name the AIDS disease as it is named?
2. Which populations are most affected by malaria infections?
3. What is one of the main reasons Osterholm says it is quicker to produce drugs than vaccines?
4. What is one of the reasons human are at a disadvantage to microbes?
5. What common product did Osterholm and his colleagues eventually trace the development of toxic shock syndrome to?
6. What was the deadliest pandemic of the modern era?
7. What did Osterholm try to emphasize for helping stop the spread of AIDS in the mid-1980s, as separate from vaccines?
8. What is one of the factors Osterholm thinks contributed to the anti-vaccine movement?
9. Why was John Snow's work so important in the 1800s?
10. In Chapter 10, what kind of flu strain is Osterholm particularly worried about?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Chapter 13, what is Osterholm's opinion about Dr. Carlo Urbani, the Italian doctor who first identified SARS as the deadly pathogen it is? What are some of the personal and professional attributes Urbani demonstrated that informed Osterholm's opinion of him? Write an essay explaining your answer.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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