Global DiseasesForeword

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Global Diseases-Foreword

• Many of us still believe that any outbreaks of
  infectious diseases are either isolated or wont
  affect us because of our lifestyle.
• What do you think?

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Is Smallpox History?

• Vaccine production ended nearly two decades ago,
  then the world thought smallpox was history.

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Smallpox

• Caused by Variola major and Variola minor
• V. major, has a mortality rate of 3035
• 30 of the survivors are blind
• responsible for an estimated 300500 million
  deaths in the 20th century

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Paragraph One
Figure 1.

• A pilgrim got smallpox in Mecca and infected 150
  people across his own country
• Vocabulary

1. pilgrim noun a person who travels to a holy
place for religious reasons. 2. rash noun an
area of red spots on a persons skin, caused by
an illness or a reaction to
something. 3. petechiae noun pinpoint flat round
red spots under the skin surface
caused by intradermal hemorrhage (bleeding
into the skin).
Figure 2.
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Paragraph Two

• Although the population are well-vaccinated,
  therere still many people contracted or died of
  smallpox.
• Vocabulary
• 4. contract noun the people who are infected
  with some diseases.
• 5. quarantine verb to keep an animal or a person
  away from others when they have or may have a
  disease.

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Paragraph Three

• Someone believe that smallpox virus may be
  released and do harm to human beings in the near
  future.
• Vocabulary
•      6. fortify verb to increase the strength by
  adding something to it
•    7. arsenal noun a collection of weapons
  such as guns and explosives.

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Paragraph Four

• The production of smallpox vaccine ended two
  decades ago when people think that smallpox was
  history, so that vaccine of smallpox is
  insufficient in the whole world.
• Vocabulary
• 9. dismantle verb to take part a machine or
  structure so that it is in separate pieces.

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Paragraph Five

• If the outbreak of smallpox really happened
  again, it is almost impossible to manufacture the
  vaccine in time or ask other countries to donate
  it.
• Vocabulary
• 10. case-fatality rate noun the percentage of
  people who die of a certain disease.

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Paragraph Six

• The debate over the fate of remaining stocks of
  smallpox is continuing.
• CDC?
• World Health Assembly??

Bill Clinton
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CDC

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Focuses national attention on
• -disease prevention and control
• -environmental health
• -education
• -

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World Health Assembly

• the world's highest health policy setting body
• is composed of health ministers from WHO member
  states
• Tasks
• - to approve the WHO program
• - to approve the budgets of the following 2
  years
• -

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Paragraph Seven..finally

• We should be well-prepared for the coming of
  epidemics such as smallpox.
• Vocabulary
• 11. consign verb to put sb/sth somewhere in
  order to get rid of them.
• 12. replenish verb to make sth full again
  by replacing what has been used

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Discussion

• According to this article, whats your opinion of
  the fate of remaining stocks of smallpox virus?
• When SARS came few years ago, whats your
  reaction to it?

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