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Passage Five
The difference between avian flu and human flu that should be commanding our rapt attention
today is that avian influenza, specifically the H5N1 strain known as bird flu, threatens to become the
young people’s plague. And it is a growing contender to cause a devastating worldwide pandemic in
the next few years.
We are too used to thinking of flu as an annual annoyance that kills only the frail and elderly. But
that just isn't the case for H5N1. With a mortality rate of over 50 percent, this bird flu has killed over
110 people, striking the young and able-bodied the hardest. Its victims cluster predominantly among 5 to
30 years old,a pattern that has held up in the 34 known to have died from bird flu so far this year.
This vulnerability may stem from the robust and fast-responding immune systems of the young.
The victims overreact to the alien virus, triggering a massive immune response called a cytokine
storm, turning healthy lungs into a sodden mass of dying tissues congested with blood, toxic fluid,
and rampaging inflammatory cells. As air spaces choke off, the body loses oxygen and other organs
fail.
Scientists have recently shown that H5N1 has ominous parallels with the devastating 1918 flu
pandemic, which also jumped directly to humans from birds and disproportionately attacked the
young and the strong. With a pattern highly suggestive of a cytokine storm, death sometimes come
within just hours, turning many World War I troop ships into death ships.
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61. A. incensed B. personify C. interact D. predicted
62. A. array B. ascertain C. probe D. perturb
63. A. application B. integration C. avenge D. intervene
64. A. conforming B. comparing C. biding D. budgeting
65. A. junctions B. junctures C. obligations D. observations
66. A. optionally B. ornamentally C. previously D. predicatively
67. A. attribution B. autonomy C. indication D. induction
68. A. immune B. seasonal C. formidable D. perceptible
69. A. analysis B. disposal C. antigen D. disincentive
70. A. avenging B. underestimating C. ascending D. underlying
71. A. potential B. respectable C. secretive D. sturdy
72. A. weary B. obtain C. wink D. retard
73. A. oriented B. kenned C. predicted D. lapsed
74. A. modification B. nomination C. penetration D. influence
75. A. paving B. altering C. retreating D. saluting
76. A. stabilities B. popularities C. concentrations D. hierarchies
77. A. abundance B. hemisphere C. fixture D. distress
78. A. burial B. argumentation C. legislation D. amount
79. A. disposals B. properties C. certainties D. blends
80. A. calculation B. assignment C. budget D. effect
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