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In 1957 a doctor in Singapore noticed that hospitals were treating an unusual number of influenza-like cases. Influenza is somet
In 1957 a doctor in Singapore noticed that hospitals were treating an unusual number of influenza-like cases. Influenza is somet
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2011-02-25
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问题
In 1957 a doctor in Singapore noticed that hospitals were treating an unusual number of influenza-like cases. Influenza is sometimes called “flu” or a “bad cold”. He took samples from the throats of patients in his hospital and was able to find the virus of this influenza.
There are three main types of the influenza virus. The most important of these are types A and B, each of them having several sub-groups. With the instruments at the hospital the doctor recognized that the outbreak was due to a virus group A, but he did not know the sub-group. He reported the outbreak to the World Health Organization in Geneva. W. H.O. published the important news alongside reports of a similar outbreak in Hong Kong, where about 15%—20% of the population had become ill.
As soon as the London doctors received the package of throat samples, they began the standard tests. They found that by reproducing itself at very high speed, the virus had multiplied more than a million times within two days. Continuing their careful tests, the doctors checked the effect of drugs used against all the known sub-groups of virus type A. None of them gave any protection. This then, was something new: a new influenza virus against which the people of the world had no ready help whatsoever. Having isolated the virus they were working with, the two doctors now dropped it into the noses of some specially selected animals, which contact influenza in the same way as human beings do. In a short time the usual signs of the disease appeared. These experiments revealed that the new virus spread easily, but that it was not a killer. Scientists, like the general public, called it simply “Asian” flu.
The first discovery of the virus, however, was made in China before the disease had appeared in other countries. Various reports showed that the influenza outbreak started in China, probably in February of 1957. By the middle of March it had spread all over China. The virus was found by Chinese doctors early in March. But China was not a member of the World Health Organization and therefore did not report outbreaks of disease to it. Not until two months later, when travelers carried the virus into Hong Kong, from where it spread to Singapore, did the news of the outbreak reach the rest of the world. By this time it was started on its way around the world.
Thereafter, WHO’s Weekly Reports described the steady spread of this virus outbreak, which within four months swept through every continent.
London doctors considered
选项
A、“Asian” flu as a bad cold.
B、there were three main types of influenza virus.
C、it was necessary to test the other virus groups besides group A
D、the influenza called “Asian” flu a new one.
答案
D
解析
推理判断题。根据首段第二句话判断 [A]“亚洲流感可看作重感冒”表述正确,但这不是伦敦医生的观点;[B]出自第二段首句,属于常识性内容,也不是伦敦医生的观点;[C]在文中未涉及;因此正确选项为 [D],这可由第三段末句推出。既然此种流行性感冒是由一种新的流感病毒引起,那么它就是一种新型流感。
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