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# wrong text: Sorry, that's incorrect. # right text: That's correct! # social text incomplete: Test Your Superbug IQ. Try it yourself and see how much you know about %23antibiotic resistance. # social text complete: I took the Superbug IQ quiz and got {score} out of {total_questions}. Try it yourself and see how much you know about %23antibiotic resistance. ? True or False: Antimicrobial resistance was one of the top 10 global health threats in 2019. + True ! Antimicrobial resistance joined illnesses such as Ebola, HIV, and dengue on the World Health Organization’s list. - False ? Antibiotics underpin modern medicine. Who was outspoken this year about her experience with pneumonia, a condition for which antibiotics are often the treatment? - Ellen DeGeneres - Taylor Swift - Michelle Obama + Oprah Winfrey ! Oprah said in an interview with Ellen DeGeneres that she had been “very sick” with pneumonia and had to see a lung specialist after spending a week on antibiotics that “weren’t working.” Effective antibiotics are critical to much of modern medicine, including the treatment of bacterial infections such as pneumonia, which can be life-threatening. ? True or False: Most antibiotics today are developed by small pharmaceutical companies. + True ! Over 90 percent of antibiotics in development today are being researched by small companies rather than the large pharmaceutical firms that once dominated this field. The big drug companies have largely abandoned antibiotic development, in large part because of the low return on investment in comparison with other products. The companies are choosing instead to concentrate on more lucrative lines of work, such as cancer drugs and immunotherapies. - False ? Antibiotic resistance could force how many people into extreme poverty by 2030? - 10 million + 24 million ! A 2019 United Nations report designed to help countries respond to the global growth of antimicrobial resistance found that as drug-resistant pathogens spread, health care expenses increase dramatically, and sustainable food and feed production are put at risk. This economic impact could force as many as 24 million people into poverty, mainly in low-income countries. - 36 million - 41 million ? Rates of antibiotic-resistant pathogens in food animals have skyrocketed in which countries? - High-income countries + Low- and middle-income countries ! A first-of-its-kind global analysis published in Science Magazine reported that in the past 20 years, the number of antibiotic-resistant pathogens has risen dramatically in parts of Asia and Africa as food animal production expands in these areas of the world. - The five most populous countries - The five largest countries by land mass