Text: Fatal diseases in the 50’s

Text: Fatal diseases in the 50’s

Children all over the world are facing dangerous times. Until this date, 1953, there is no cure against polio. Besides polio, the triple threat of measles, mumps and chickenpox is forcing doctors to isolate children with these diseases in special rooms in hospitals.

A definitive cure or treatment for all these diseases is expected for the next 10 years.

Help: disease – doença; warning – advertência; notice – aviso; until – até; against – contra; threat – ameaça; measles – sarampo; mumps – caxumba; chickenpox – catapora.

Questions:

1. The inventor of the vaccine against polio was:

a) Albert Bruce Sabin.

b) Albert Einstein.


2. Chickenpox, measles and mumps are:

a) Infectious and inflammatory diseases.

b) animal diseases.


Respostas:
1. a; 2. a.