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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 is the problem with the vaccine for yellow fever?
2. What chemical that used to be commonly used to kill mosquitoes became a public health and environmental concern as the years went on?
3. Who wrote the book The Great Influenza?
4. What are the leading causes of death today in America, according to Osterholm?
5. Who was one of the first physicians to name and discover the SARS virus in 2003?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is one of Osterholm's fears about how a virus like Ebola could possibly mutate to become worse?
2. In Chapter 14, what does Osterholm remember Dr. Hausler for, especially during a difficult personal episode for Osterholm?
3. What kind of virus is Ebola and why was it given this specific name?
4. Why did so many young, healthy people die in the 1918 flu epidemic?
5. In 2015, where did a severe new strain of flu appear in the United States?
6. What are the two types of dengue disease Osterholm describes in Chapter 14?
7. Why does Osterholm claim a personal stake in studying mosquito-borne illnesses?
8. What did Dr. Anne Schuchat at the CDC say about the tools available to fight a disease like SARS?
9. What was the likely origin of the MERS outbreak that began in 2012?
10. Why does Osterholm argue that cancer and heart disease kill so many more people today than they did a century ago?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is a threat matrix, and how does it work? What is the purpose of a threat matrix in public health? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Why was the zika virus so dangerous - and different from earlier zika outbreaks - when it emerged in South American in 2016? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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