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TB Continues to Thrive Thousands of years after Tuberculosis ravaged ancient cultures stretching from Greece to Egypt, more

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问题                             TB Continues to Thrive
    Thousands of years after Tuberculosis ravaged ancient cultures stretching from Greece to Egypt, more than a century after the bacillus responsible for the disease was first identified and decades after the first antibiotic based treatments appeared, TB continues to thrive. In 2005 the disease was diagnosed in 9. 2 million more people, almost exclusively in the developing world, and 1. 7 million people died from it. More alarming is a growing subset of TB cases, estimated at half a million, that are resistant to more than one of the handful of anti-TB drugs. While they still make up only 5% of the total annual TB burden, these cases of multidrug resistant and extensively drug-resistant TB are mushrooming, fueled by the surge in AIDS and by health-care systems that have ignored the threat of TB for too long.
    But it doesn’t have to be this way. TB is an entirely preventable and treatable disease. And the drug-resistant strains beginning to emerge in Africa, Russia, China and India, say experts, are epidemics of our own making. Unlike HIV, the tubercle bacillus succumbs to powerful medications. But these drugs are not where they need to be, and when they are, spotty monitoring and poor health infrastructure make it hard to ensure that patients take their daily doses for six months that are needed to eradicate the infection—all of which encourages drug-resistant strains to survive and keep the disease going. "We are still in denial about how bad this problem is and how much worse it’s going to get," says Dr. Jim Kim, head of social medicine at Harvard Medical School.
    Over the past five months, James Nachtwey has documented the resurgence of TB in seven countries. Turning back the epidemic will require not just newer and more effective drugs but also better ways to detect the disease and a renewed commitment to expanding existing TB-treatment programs. In June the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended a new, rapid test for TB that can provide results in as little as two days. But for most TB-ravaged nations, adopting the technique will require upgrading lab facilities.That’s not easy, but it’s something WHO hopes will ultimately help these countries battle not just TB but other infectious diseases as well. TB bacilli have adapted over millenniums; to control the scourge, we must adapt too.
Which of the following countries suffers from TB at present?
选项 A、Egypt.
B、America.
C、Russia.
D、Greece.
答案C
解析 事实细节题。提问目前遭受肺结核病折磨的国家。第二段第三句提到在非洲、俄罗斯、中国和印度都出现了对治疗肺结核病药物的抗药性，可以据此判断这些国家和地区都出现了肺结核病，而希腊和埃及出现在文章开篇，其中提到肺结核病在这两个国家的猖獗是出现在古代社会时期，因此只有C“俄罗斯”符合题目要求。
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