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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. Who is the National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, named for?

2. What does Osterholm say is currently the most important vector-borne virus disease that affects humans?

3. Which doctor's six year-old daughter punctured her skin with a sewing needle and developed a massive infection in the 1930s?

4. Where was Zika virus first detected?

5. Why do we need a new flu vaccine formula every year?

Short Essay Questions

1. In 2015, where did a severe new strain of flu appear in the United States?

2. What was the likely origin of the MERS outbreak that began in 2012?

3. What are the two types of dengue disease Osterholm describes in Chapter 14?

4. In Chapter 12, what is one of the theories about how the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa began?

5. What is one of Osterholm's fears about how a virus like Ebola could possibly mutate to become worse?

6. In Chapter 16, who was one of the first doctors to discover the power of antibiotics and how did he make this discovery?

7. In Chapter 12, why does Osterholm think President Obama's choice of Ron Klain to head his Ebola task force in 2014 was inspired?

8. In Chapter 13, what was one of the missteps Osterholm criticizes China for in the early days of the SARS outbreak?

9. What does Osterholm write that Zika is the first example of in his career in public health?

10. In Chapter 17, what is one remedy for antibiotic-resistant infections that Osterholm says will be more difficult, but not impossible, to develop?

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

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 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.

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