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

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

admin2013-06-05  22
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 is true according to the passage?
选项 A、TB cannot be entirely prevented and treated.
B、HIV succumbs to powerful medications.
C、To eradicate TB, patients need to take their daily doses for six months.
D、TB resurges only in seven countries.
答案C
解析 推理判断题。A与原文不符，因为文中第二段第二句明确指出肺结核病“完全可以预防和治疗”；第二段第四句指出Unlike HIV，the tubercle bacillus succumbs to powerful medications，也就是说强效药物对肺结核病病菌极为有效，可是艾滋病病毒与肺结核病病菌不同，因此排除B；根据第二段第五句“确保患者能够连续6个月坚持每天服用药物，而这是根治该疾病所必需的”可知C是正确；根据文中第三段第一句，James Nachtwey记录了肺结核病在七个国家的蔓延情况，但是该疾病并不仅仅只出现在这七个国家，只是这名记者选取了这七个国家加以记录。故排除D.
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/yNd4777K
0

考研英语一

相关试题推荐
随机试题
最新回复(0)