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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 are the unchanging features of a virus called?

2. Who was the head of the first meeting Osterholm attended about the HIV/AIDS epidemic, before doctors knew what they were dealing with?

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

4. In which part of Minnesota did Osterholm investigate an outbreak of diarrheal illness in 1984?

5. In 2001, what was the name of the senate building that was shut down for months due to an anthrax contamination?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In Osterholm's opinion, how do our influenza vaccines need to change?

6. How does Osterholm distinguish between a so-called good death and a bad death?

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

8. Which populations are most affected by malaria infections?

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

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

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.

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 3, how does Osterholm argue that the CDC likely made the problem of TSS (Toxic Shock Syndrome) linked to tampon use worse? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your agruments.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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