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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the 2012 outbreak of MERS seem to originate?
(a) Morocco.
(b) Saudi Arabia.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Israel.

2. Who is the National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, named for?
(a) Dr. Gerald Heil.
(b) Dr. Arnold Ashe.
(c) Dr. E.G. Cummings.
(d) Dr. Walter Reed.

3. What is the problem with the vaccine for yellow fever?
(a) It can not be administered to people under the age of 25.
(b) We do not have enough of it for those who would need it in a large-scale outbreak.
(c) It is far too expensive to be used widely.
(d) It causes serious side effects.

4. Which public health organization or government agency is in charge of mosquito control today, according to Osterholm?
(a) Not one.
(b) The Department of Homeland Security.
(c) Health and Human Services.
(d) The Department of Agriculture.

5. What chemical that used to be commonly used to kill mosquitoes became a public health and environmental concern as the years went on?
(a) DDT.
(b) ERA.
(c) MMR.
(d) FBG.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many West African children were orphaned by the Ebola outbreak in 2014?

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

3. Which organ did an American health care worker harbor Ebola virus in for quite a while after he had been cured of the disease?

4. Osterholm notes in Chapter 17 that in his experience, what gets acted upon is related to which of the following?

5. What did Dr. Anne Schuchat say about the tools we had to fight SARS in 2003?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Osterholm think many doctors prescribe antibiotics even when they think they will do the patient no good?

2. What kind of virus is Ebola and why was it given this specific name?

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

4. What was the most serious complication of the Zika virus that merged in the Americas in 2015?

5. In Chapter 18, what does John Barry, author of The Great Influenza, say is the first thing to understand about influenza?

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. Why did so many young, healthy people die in the 1918 flu epidemic?

8. Why does Osterholm argue that cancer and heart disease kill so many more people today than they did a century ago?

9. Why does Osterholm believe the public is so fearful of diseases like Ebola?

10. Why does Osterholm claim a personal stake in studying mosquito-borne illnesses?

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