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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. How many people does the WHO estimate might be infected with latent tuberculosis?
2. What company did Bill Gates found?
3. What are the unchanging features of a virus called?
4. What was the average life-expectancy in the United States in the year 1900?
5. Which doctor does Osterholm begin Chapter 2 with a quote from?
Short Essay Questions
1. What common product did Osterholm and his colleagues eventually trace the development of toxic shock syndrome to?
2. What is the term Osterholm uses for the process of a microbe moving from one place to another host?
3. What was the deadliest pandemic of the modern era?
4. In Osterholm's opinion, how do our influenza vaccines need to change?
5. What are two major diseases the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has put large amounts of money into developing vaccines for?
6. Why was the Spanish Flu so named, even though it likely did not originate in Spain?
7. In Chapter 2, what intensely personal detail of his early life does Osterholm share with the reader?
8. In Chapter 10, what kind of flu strain is Osterholm particularly worried about?
9. In Chapter 4, what does Osterholm reveal as what he thinks is the probable cause of the world's next pandemic?
10. What does Osterholm view as the scariest means of transmission for microbes, and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Chapter 20, what are some of the characteristics of our current influenza vaccines that Osterholm argues are "unique, and not in a good way?" (286). How does Osterholm believe our influenza vaccines could and should be improved? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 2
What is a threat matrix, and how does it work? What is the purpose of a threat matrix in public health? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 3
What is contact tracing? How does it work, and what are some of the specific illnesses of the past several decades for which Osterholm argues its use was critical to managing outbreaks of? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your findings.
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