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1. What is the nickname some in the media started giving to Osterholm?

Bad News Mike.

2. What is the serious condition that the Zika virus sometimes causes in babies?

Microcephaly.

3. What is one of the two metaphors Osterholm uses for fighting viruses throughout the book?

War.

4. What type of pneumonia did doctors begin to see in early HIV/AIDS patients?

Pneumocystis carinii.

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

Dr. James Curran.

6. What was the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) known informally as when Osterholm was in medical school?

The kissing disease.

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