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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Chapters 12 - 14).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the One Health movement strive to do?
(a) Emphasize that it is the health of the individual that is the most important.
(b) Emphasize the idea that we need to understand the health of both humans and animals to prevent human disease.
(c) Try to foster public health information-sharing between countries.
(d) Try to find new vaccines for use in the developing world.

2. What turned out to be causing the diarrheal illness in Minnesota that Osterholm investigated in 1984?
(a) Pathogens on canteloupes.
(b) Bacteria from a peanut-processing plant.
(c) Bacteria in raw milk.
(d) Pathogens on spinach.

3. About how much money is spent on AIDS vaccine research every year?
(a) About one billion dollars.
(b) About 500 million dollars.
(c) About 100 million dollars.
(d) About 10 million dollars.

4. Who was the George W. Bush-era Health and Human Services Secretary Osterholm has worked closely with?
(a) Tommy Thompson.
(b) Kristen Henderson.
(c) Michael Henry.
(d) Maria Solnar.

5. Who created the polio vaccine?
(a) Dr. Jonas Salk.
(b) Dr. James Curran.
(c) Dr. Edward Murrow.
(d) Dr. Michael Riker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What group did congress establish in 2006 to help provide a good approach to vaccine development?

2. What possibility about Ebola was Osterholm criticized for bringing up in a 2014 op-ed in the New York Times?

3. Which doctor was responsible for figuring out the source of a cholera outbreak in London in the 1850s?

4. What can anthrax be hidden in its dried form, according to Osterholm?

5. What kind of virus are both the MERS and SARS viruses?

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