One Health
This term describes diseases that spread between animals and humans.
A. Autoimmune diseases
B. Zoonotic diseases
C. Environmental diseases
D. Nosocomial diseases
What is a zoonotic disease?
This highly contagious virus requires a large population, several hundred thousand, to sustain transmission.
A. Cholera
B. Measles
C. Ebola
D. Tuberculosis
What is measles?
Today, people can circle the globe in this many hours by commercial airplane.
A. 12 hours
B. 24 hours
C. Less than 40 hours
D. Over 100 hours
What is less than 40 hours?
Rising temperatures may allow this mosquito-borne disease to expand beyond the equatorial region.
A. Yellow fever
B. Malaria
C. Dengue
D. West Nile
What is malaria?
Despite only 22 cases, these attacks caused massive national fear after 9/11.
A. Navy Yard attacks
B. 1993 World Trade Center bombing
C. 2001 anthrax letters
D. Oklahoma City bombing
What are the 2001 anthrax letters?
The One Health movement emphasizes protecting the health of which group?
A. Humans only
B. Animals only
C. Both humans and animals
D. Microbes
What is both humans and animals?
This Ebola strain caused the deadly 2013–2015 West Africa epidemic.
A. Sudan Ebola
B. Reston Ebola
C. Zaire Ebola
D. Bundibugyo Ebola
What is Zaire Ebola?
Every day, this many people fly commercially worldwide, according to the chapter.
A. 1 million
B. 3 million
C. 8 million
D. 20 million
What is 8 million?
This virus, transmitted by mosquitoes and is associated with birth defects, is mentioned as a threat that could expand with warming climates.
A. MERS
B. Zika
C. Hantavirus
D. Nipah
What is Zika?
The chapter warns that pandemics can destabilize this, leading to chaos and distrust.
A. Agriculture
B. Government
C. Transportation
D. Internet
What is the government?
Around 10,000 years ago, this major lifestyle shift increased contact with animals and sparked new diseases.
A. Climate change
B. Domestication of animals
C. Development of agriculture
D. Both B and C
What is the agricultural revolution?
OR
What is the domestication of animals?
This bacterium can remain dormant for decades in spore form, waiting to become anthrax.
A. Yersinia pestis
B. Mycobacterium tuberculosis
C. Bacillus anthracis
D. Vibrio cholerae
What is Bacillus anthracis?
Roughly how many large cargo ships are crossing the oceans on any given day, potentially carrying infected mosquitoes or contaminated goods?
A. 10,000
B. 25,000
C. 60,000
D. 100,000
Roughly 60,000
According to the chapter, how certain are we about climate change’s exact effects on infectious diseases?
A. We know precisely
B. We have a few clear predictions
C. We can’t predict them exactly
D. We know it will have no effect
What is we can't exactly predict them?
During the 2014 Ebola outbreak, crops were not harvested and borders closed in these three West African countries.
A. Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania
B. Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea
C. Mali, Ghana, Benin
D. Uganda, Sudan, DR Congo
What are Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea?
In 1960, this number of chickens existed worldwide; an early sign of exploding animal populations.
A. 1 billion
B. 3 billion
C. 10 billion
D. 20 billion
What is 3 billion?
Reston Ebola has an unusual characteristic when it infects humans.
A. Highly lethal
B. Causes mild illness
C. Usually asymptomatic
D. Causes rapid hemorrhage
What is usually asymptomatic?
The first scheduled commercial flight occurred in this year.
A. 1897
B. 1914
C. 1928
D. 1940
What is 1914?
These two types of diseases illustrate the difference between endemic and epidemic patterns (as highlighted by malaria).
A. Viral vs. bacterial disease
B. Endemic vs. epidemic disease
C. High-income vs. low-income disease
D. Persistent vs. acute infection
What are endemic vs. epidemic diseases?
This U.S. territory is described as “virtually bankrupt,” illustrating how weak governance affects health crises.
A. Guam
B. Puerto Rico
C. U.S. Virgin Islands
D. Northern Mariana Islands
What is Puerto Rico?
This livestock species, producing more than 400 million annually today, creates a “genetic mixing bowl” for influenza.
A. Cattle
B. Sheep
C. Pigs
D. Goats
What are pigs?
The 1918 global pandemic was caused by this type of pathogen.
A. Bacterium
B. Fungus
C. Parasite
D. Virus
What is the influenza virus?
The chapter warns that this modern economic system creates vulnerability because essential medications are made abroad.
A. Domestic health subsidies
B. Global supply chain
C. Agricultural export programs
D. Local emergency stockpile network
What is the global supply chain?
Climate change may weaken this seasonal effect that previously helped kill off disease-carrying insects in colder regions.
A. Dry season
B. Cold winter temperatures
C. Mountain winds
D. UV radiation
What are cold winters?
The chapter concludes that fighting infectious disease is, in a very real sense, a matter of national ________.
A. Unity
B. Security
C. Identity
D. Science
What is security?