MIC 130 EVALUATION 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Difficulties with Ebola - ✔✔Rural areas, people fleeing, not many hospitals, people
are scared
✔✔Ebola similarities and difference to Covid-19 - ✔✔Both- Overwhelming of healthcare
systems, enforcing distancing, contact tracing, use of PPE, lack of PPE availability
(masks), quarantines
Different transmission, Ebola used education to stop epidemic
✔✔US Preparation for Emerging Diseases - ✔✔Prepare for worst case scenario,
epidemic of highly deadly and highly transmissible infectious disease; have a plan
✔✔Biowarfare - ✔✔intentional use of disease-causing organisms, or products of
organisms, to infect populations to attain a military objective
✔✔Bioterrorism - ✔✔intentional use of disease-causing organisms, or products of
organisms, to infect humans, animals, or plants in to cause civil unrest and panic or to
commit a crime
✔✔Atrractiveness of Biological Weapons - ✔✔Agents readily available, inexpensive, not
easily detected, high transportable, can be engineered to make them worse,
, transmission long after delivery, can cause large scale panic, no damage to
infrastructure
✔✔Disadvantages to Biological Weapons - ✔✔Morally & socially unethical, delivery can
be tricky, difficult to control spread, "Pandora's Box"
✔✔Historical Uses of Biological Weapons - ✔✔o Japanese Program (Unit 731)-
research, development, and production facility
o US program started during WWII, planned drop bomblets w/ anthrax over German
Cities
o US Bio. Weapons Program: SF, CA- 1950, spread bacterial species as part of germ
warfare test from plane
o NYC Subway System- 1966: lightbulbs filled with powdered bacterial spores of
harmless species, dropped onto tracks, spores had disseminated throughout NYC
within days
✔✔Ended US Biological Weapons Program - ✔✔President Nixon- Nov. 25, 1969
✔✔Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention - ✔✔1972, banned development and use
of biological agents of warfare, mandated destruction of all stocks of agents, USSR
continued to develop
✔✔One Flaw with Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention - ✔✔Lacked any formal
inspection system to ensure compliance
✔✔Biopreparat - ✔✔Soviet- Massive organization of research labs and production
plants under a supposed non-military umbrella, weaponizing agents, designed effective
delivery systems
✔✔Examples of Homegrown Bioterrorism - ✔✔- The Dalles, OR- Sept. 1984:
Rajneeshee Cult tried to affect local county election by spraying Salmonella onto salad
bars
- Diane Thompson-1997: Dallas TX, clinical lab work took a tube of Shigella dysenteriae
and spread it on pastries and muffins, gave to coworkers
- Anthrax Mail Attacks- Sept-Oct 2001: first targeted the media, main on Sept. 18,
second targeted the government on Oct. 9- Lots of people affected
✔✔US Preparation and Protection for Bioterror Event - ✔✔Categorize agents based on
risk (severity, transmission, ease of production, ease of dissemination), identify threats,
deal with threat
✔✔Focus to Deal with Threat of Bioterrorism - ✔✔Preparedness, surveillance, response
✔✔Surveillance of Bioterrorism - ✔✔Devices for detection of agents in air, deployed in
cities across the country, can be included in normal disease reporting as well
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Difficulties with Ebola - ✔✔Rural areas, people fleeing, not many hospitals, people
are scared
✔✔Ebola similarities and difference to Covid-19 - ✔✔Both- Overwhelming of healthcare
systems, enforcing distancing, contact tracing, use of PPE, lack of PPE availability
(masks), quarantines
Different transmission, Ebola used education to stop epidemic
✔✔US Preparation for Emerging Diseases - ✔✔Prepare for worst case scenario,
epidemic of highly deadly and highly transmissible infectious disease; have a plan
✔✔Biowarfare - ✔✔intentional use of disease-causing organisms, or products of
organisms, to infect populations to attain a military objective
✔✔Bioterrorism - ✔✔intentional use of disease-causing organisms, or products of
organisms, to infect humans, animals, or plants in to cause civil unrest and panic or to
commit a crime
✔✔Atrractiveness of Biological Weapons - ✔✔Agents readily available, inexpensive, not
easily detected, high transportable, can be engineered to make them worse,
, transmission long after delivery, can cause large scale panic, no damage to
infrastructure
✔✔Disadvantages to Biological Weapons - ✔✔Morally & socially unethical, delivery can
be tricky, difficult to control spread, "Pandora's Box"
✔✔Historical Uses of Biological Weapons - ✔✔o Japanese Program (Unit 731)-
research, development, and production facility
o US program started during WWII, planned drop bomblets w/ anthrax over German
Cities
o US Bio. Weapons Program: SF, CA- 1950, spread bacterial species as part of germ
warfare test from plane
o NYC Subway System- 1966: lightbulbs filled with powdered bacterial spores of
harmless species, dropped onto tracks, spores had disseminated throughout NYC
within days
✔✔Ended US Biological Weapons Program - ✔✔President Nixon- Nov. 25, 1969
✔✔Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention - ✔✔1972, banned development and use
of biological agents of warfare, mandated destruction of all stocks of agents, USSR
continued to develop
✔✔One Flaw with Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention - ✔✔Lacked any formal
inspection system to ensure compliance
✔✔Biopreparat - ✔✔Soviet- Massive organization of research labs and production
plants under a supposed non-military umbrella, weaponizing agents, designed effective
delivery systems
✔✔Examples of Homegrown Bioterrorism - ✔✔- The Dalles, OR- Sept. 1984:
Rajneeshee Cult tried to affect local county election by spraying Salmonella onto salad
bars
- Diane Thompson-1997: Dallas TX, clinical lab work took a tube of Shigella dysenteriae
and spread it on pastries and muffins, gave to coworkers
- Anthrax Mail Attacks- Sept-Oct 2001: first targeted the media, main on Sept. 18,
second targeted the government on Oct. 9- Lots of people affected
✔✔US Preparation and Protection for Bioterror Event - ✔✔Categorize agents based on
risk (severity, transmission, ease of production, ease of dissemination), identify threats,
deal with threat
✔✔Focus to Deal with Threat of Bioterrorism - ✔✔Preparedness, surveillance, response
✔✔Surveillance of Bioterrorism - ✔✔Devices for detection of agents in air, deployed in
cities across the country, can be included in normal disease reporting as well
