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Your Best Shot 

With more new choices, there’s a flu vaccine for almost everyone 

 

  Dr. Greg Poland is expecting a lot of questions – and confusion – from his patients this flu season. For the first time, U.S. health officials will distribute six influenza vaccines, up from four last year. “Instead of the one-size-fits-all approach, we are moving to vaccines…for individual patients,” says Poland, director of the Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research Group.

  The goal is to get more than the usual 40% of the U.S. population immunized by adding shots made specifically for those who have an allergy to eggs (previously, all flu vaccines contained egg protein), among other conditions. And a new shot and nasal spray protect against four, instead of the usual three, influenza strains. Within a few seasons, says Dr. Michael Shaw at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), every flu vaccine option will be using such an uberformula.

  There are caveats: some of the specialized shots can be more expensive. For now, that four-strain shot can cost up to 30% more than a standard one. But more vaccine options will lead to fewer flu cases, and that could save both lives and health care costs.

A disadvantage of some of the newer shots is that you

TEXTO:

 

Your Best Shot 

With more new choices, there’s a flu vaccine for almost everyone 

 

  Dr. Greg Poland is expecting a lot of questions – and confusion – from his patients this flu season. For the first time, U.S. health officials will distribute six influenza vaccines, up from four last year. “Instead of the one-size-fits-all approach, we are moving to vaccines…for individual patients,” says Poland, director of the Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research Group.

  The goal is to get more than the usual 40% of the U.S. population immunized by adding shots made specifically for those who have an allergy to eggs (previously, all flu vaccines contained egg protein), among other conditions. And a new shot and nasal spray protect against four, instead of the usual three, influenza strains. Within a few seasons, says Dr. Michael Shaw at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), every flu vaccine option will be using such an uberformula.

  There are caveats: some of the specialized shots can be more expensive. For now, that four-strain shot can cost up to 30% more than a standard one. But more vaccine options will lead to fewer flu cases, and that could save both lives and health care costs.

Fill in the parentheses with T (True) or F (False).

 

It’s stated in the text:

 

( ) This flu season, Americans will have a relatively narrow range of vaccine options.

( ) Compared with last year, two more types of flu vaccines will be available this flu season.

( ) Until recently, the only way of getting immunized against influenza was through a vaccine containing three strains of the virus.

( ) Nowadays, less than half the U.S. population gets the flu vaccine regularly.

 

According to the text, the correct sequence, from top to bottom, is

West Africa Ebola Outbreak

 

 

Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a disease of humans and other mammals caused by an ebolavirus. Symptoms start two days to three weeks after contracting the virus. Ebola deaths in Africa up to 8 October, 2014 sum 4,032 people.

The 2014 Ebola epidemic is the largest in history, affecting multiple countries in West Africa. These countries are Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. There were a small number of cases reported in Nigeria and a single case reported in Senegal; however, these cases are considered to be contained, with no further spread in these countries. Despite the efforts of health officials, 2,316 people died in Liberia, 778 in Guinea and 930 in Sierra Leone. Only eight people died in Nigeria.

Source: Wikipedia and WHO.

The statistics point that

West Africa Ebola Outbreak

 

 

Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a disease of humans and other mammals caused by an ebolavirus. Symptoms start two days to three weeks after contracting the virus. Ebola deaths in Africa up to 8 October, 2014 sum 4,032 people.

The 2014 Ebola epidemic is the largest in history, affecting multiple countries in West Africa. These countries are Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. There were a small number of cases reported in Nigeria and a single case reported in Senegal; however, these cases are considered to be contained, with no further spread in these countries. Despite the efforts of health officials, 2,316 people died in Liberia, 778 in Guinea and 930 in Sierra Leone. Only eight people died in Nigeria.

Source: Wikipedia and WHO.

The symptoms of Ebola virus disease

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    The office of the Convention on International Trade

in Endangered Species (known as CITES) says rates of

elephant poaching and trade in illegal ivory remain very

high. In a new report, CITES warns that Africa’s elephants

[5] face an immediate threat to their survival because of

continued high levels of poaching for their ivory.

    Twenty thousand elephants were illegally killed in

Africa last year, the report shows. That figure far exceeds

the growth rate of the elephant population. In some regions

[10] of Africa elephants are threatened with extinction.

    The report also documents a clear increase in the

number of large seizures -amounts of over 500kg — of

ivory in Africa. For the first time there were more such

seizures in Africa than in Asia, an indication, the report

[15] suggests, of the involvement of transnational organized

crime in the illegal ivory trade.

    And while elephant conservationists do believe that

increased ivory confiscation is a sign that law enforcement

is improving, they also point out that demand for ivory

[20] remains very high, and that even in some of the

monitored elephant populations, poaching is actually

increasing.

FOULKES, Imogen. Poaching threatens survival of African elephants. Disponível em: <www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learning english/language/wordsinthenews/2014/06/140616_witn_ivory. shtml>. Acesso em: 13 out. 2014.

The number of African elephants illegally killed last year