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PASSAGE (Next 5 Questions)
Directions: In this section, you have a short passage. After the passage, you will find some items based on the passage. Read the passage carefully and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and the opinion of the author only.
We live in a time when globalisation is rapidly encompassing travel, information, trade and investment. The internet ties people together in ways unimagined a few years ago. The globalisation of health, however, remains an elusive goal, similar to the globalisation of economic well-being. In The Coming Plague, Laurie Garrett describes an unwelcome form of globalisation: the globalisation of disease. Garrett examines the recent history of emerging diseases such as AIDS, Ebola, Hantavirus, Rift Valley Fever, Legionnaires’ disease and others. She also explains the resurgence of familiar diseases like tuberculosis, cholera and pneumonia as a consequence of the widespread and unwise use of antibiotics. Many of the new diseases are clearly linked to changes in land use, which bring humans into close contact with rodents or other animals that harbour viruses previously unknown to medicine and often deadly to humans. Resurgent diseases, by contrast, are a creation of our medical practices. By treating people with antibiotics without restraint, we unknowingly select strains that are immune to the antibiotics and that pass on their resistant genes to unrelated bacteria by way of plasmid transfer. The heroes of her book are the women and men on the front lines of epidemiology. Garrett makes a plea for a greater commitment from our universities, medical schools and government agencies to train workers who will be capable of recognising new diseases and who will be able to move seamlessly in the laboratory, the hospital and the field in pursuit of knowledge and public health intervention around the world.
What, according to the passage, is the ‘unwelcome form of globalisation’?
1. Globalisation of diseases
2. Elusive goal of globalisation
3. History of fatal diseases
4. Selective use of antibiotics
Select the correct answer using the code given below.
