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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 the abbreviation for the combination vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis?

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

3. What is one aspect Osterholm identifies as favorable for virus transmission in his "current world conditions" category in Chapter 8?

4. In Chapter 5, where does Osterholm point out there are the most microbes in the human body?

5. Which family member of Osterholm's contracted the HIV virus through a blood transfusion in the 1980s?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the term Osterholm uses for the process of a microbe moving from one place to another host?

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

3. In Chapter 10, what kind of flu strain is Osterholm particularly worried about?

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

5. In Chapter 4, what does Osterholm reveal as what he thinks is the probable cause of the world's next pandemic?

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

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

8. In Chapter 2, what intensely personal detail of his early life does Osterholm share with the reader?

9. What were the two relatively rare conditions doctors began seeing in patients at the outset of the AIDS epidemic?

10. Why was John Snow's work so important in the 1800s?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the factors that Osterholm argues have to change in order for the world to have and execute an effective strategy for controlling mosquitoes, which are responsible for carrying pathogens that kill and sicken millions of people every year? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

What were some of the significant mistakes public health officials made in the early days of the AIDS crisis, according to Osterholm? What are some of the decisions and ideas public health officials put into action in the early days of the AIDS crisis that Osterholm praises? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What does Osterholm use the analogy of the myth of Pandora, and Pandora's box, to explain or illustrate in this book? Write an essay explaining your answer.

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