FPS 2018: Choose a statement that is true according to TEXT 1

FPS 2018 - QUESTÃO 17 - INGLÊS FPS 2018: Choose a statement that is true according to  TEXT 1 . A) One can say a disease is eliminat...

FPS 2018 - QUESTÃO 17 - INGLÊS

FPS 2018: Choose a statement that is true according to TEXT 1.

A) One can say a disease is eliminated when it is not reintroduced in a period of 5 years.

B) Eradication means only one case occurs in every 1.000 births.

C) It is possible to have an outbreak of a disease after it is considered eliminated.

D) Tetanus used to kill 35.000 infants all over the world before its official elimination.

E) The Americas are now completely free from the bacteria that causes infant tetanus.

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TEXT 1

World Health Officials Describe Progress Against Tetanus, H.I.V. and Malaria

Infant and maternal tetanus was officially eliminated from the Americas this year, the Pan American Health Organization announced on Thursday. At one time, the infection killed about 10,000 newborns annually in the Western Hemisphere; tetanus still kills about 35,000 infants around the world. It was one of several significant global health advances, including new programs against malaria and H.I.V., announced last week in conjunction with the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Haiti  was  the  last  country  in  the  Americas  to  eliminate  neonatal  tetanus.  That  does  not  meanr n  complete  eradication, because  the  bacteria  that  cause  tetanus  exisst  everywhere  in  soil  and  animal  droppings.  Rather,  elimmination  means  that thanks to vaccination of mothers and clean birthh procedures — less than one case occurs per 1,000 live  births.

The Americas have generally led the world in eliminating diseases for which vaccines exist. In this hemisphere, smallpox was eliminated in 1971, polio in 1994, rubella in 2015 and measles in 2016 (the diseases are sometimes reintroduced, as measles was at Disneyland in 2014, but outbreaks are usually brought quickly under control).

Also this week, the President’s Malaria Initiative said it would expand its work to new countries in West and Central Africa, protecting 90 million more people. The initiative, founded in 2005 as part of the United States Agency for International Development, has been a major force in driving down worldwide malaria deaths by about 40 percent in the past decade. The disease most often kills young children and pregnant women. The expansion in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Niger, Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso was made possible because Congress increased funding for the initiative in fiscal year 2017, a representative said.

In his speech to the United Nations on Tuesday, President Trump praised the malaria initiative and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief as examples of leadership in humanitarian assistance by the United States.

A combination of aid agencies, drug companies and givernments also announced that a new three-in-one antiretroviral cocktail to treat H.I.V. would soon be available to 92 countries, including virtually all of Africa, for about $75 a year. The new AIDS cocktail is the first available in poor countries to countries to contain dolutegravir, widely used in wealthy contries becouse it is highly effective and has few side effects. The pill also contains lamivudine, an older but still effective drug, and tenof disoproxil fumarate, another modern drug whose inclus effects and resistance.

Almost 37 million people in the world have H.I.V., according to Unaids, the U.N.’s AIDS-fighting agency, but fewer than 20 million are now on antiretroviral medicine, which not only saves their lives but prevents them from passing on the disease.

McNEIL Jr., Donald. Disponível em: < https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/health/world

Resposta:
C) It is possible to have an outbreak of a disease after it is considered eliminated.

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