UNESP 2019: De acordo com o primeiro parágrafo

Leia o texto para responder às questões de 24 a 30.

Prescriptions for fighting epidemics

Epidemics have plagued humanity since the dawn of settled life. Yet, success in conquering them remains patchy. Experts predict that a global one that could kill more than 300 million people would come round in the next 20 to 40 years. What pathogen would cause it is anybody’s guess. Chances are that it will be a virus that lurks in birds or mammals, or one that that has not yet hatched. The scariest are both highly lethal and spread easily among humans. Thankfully, bugs that excel at the first tend to be weak at the other. But mutations – ordinary business for germs – can change that in a blink. Moreover, when humans get too close to beasts, either wild or packed in farms, an animal disease can become a human one.

A front-runner for global pandemics is the seasonal influenza virus, which mutates so much that a vaccine must be custom-made every year. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, which killed 50 million to 100 million people, was a potent version of the “swine flu” that emerged in 2009. The H5N1 “avian flu” strain, deadly in 60% of cases, came about in the 1990s when a virus that sickened birds made the jump to a human. Ebola, HIV and Zika took a similar route.

(www.economist.com, 08.02.2018. Adaptado.)

QUESTÃO 24
UNESP 2019: De acordo com o primeiro parágrafo,

(A) há perspectivas de erradicar as epidemias nos próximos 40 anos.

(B) as epidemias assolaram principalmente os povos ancestrais nômades.

(C) as mutações que os germes sofrem geralmente atenuam a sua letalidade.

(D) doenças presentes em animais e aves podem se transformar em doenças humanas.

(E) as aves são as principais transmissoras de patógenos, devido à sua mobilidade.

QUESTÃO ANTERIOR:
- UNESP 2019: Based on the information presented by the map, one can say that, from 1731 to 1775,

RESOLUÇÃO I

A afirmação encontra-se no final do primeiro parágrafo:

“...when humans get too close to beasts, either wild or packed in farms, an animal disease can become a human one.”

RESOLUÇÃO II

A expectativa dos especialistas para a próxima grande epidemia é que esta seja de uma doença que está atualmente em animais ou aves.

GABARITO:
(D) doenças presentes em animais e aves podem se transformar em doenças humanas.

PRÓXIMA QUESTÃO:
- UNESP 2019: No trecho do primeiro parágrafo “or one that that has not yet hatched”, o termo sublinhado refere-se a