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WorksheetsScientists...protecting against the flu
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 9mins
What is the base verb for the noun description?
describe
descript
There is a way to predict what strain of the shape-shifting flu virus could trigger another worldwide pandemic.
True
False
Finish the sentence:
Labs around the country are hunting for (a) .
Why does the flu virus beat our best defenses?
because it constantly mutates
because it does not mutate
because it is just science
because it never changes
What name did Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger call the 1918 flu?
(a)
What important feat did Dr. Jeffery and his team accomplish?
Read the list of sentences from the article.
1. Labs around the country are hunting for a super-shot that could get rid of the annual fall vaccination.
2. Despite 100 years of science, the flu virus too often beats our best defenses because it constantly mutates.
3. Id a never-before-seen flu strain erupts, it takes months to brew a new vaccine.
4. The quest for a new vaccine starts with two proteins called hemagglutinin and neuraminidase that coat flu's surface.
Which two sentences taken together provide the BEST evidence that finding a universal flu vaccine is essential for preventing another outbreak?
1 and 2
2 and 3
3 and 4
1 and 4
Read the last paragraph from the section "Deadly Kansas Strain Spread."
Three more worldwide flu outbreaks have struck since, in 1957, 1968 and 2009, spreading widely but nowhere near as deadly. Taubenberger's research shows the flu family tree. It shows that each following outbreak was a result of flu viruses carried by birds or pigs mixing with 1918 flu genes.
What conclusion is BEST supported by this paragraph?
Scientists believe birds and pigs are most at risk of dying from the 1918 flu.
The genes of the 1918 flu have gotten gradually weaker every year since then.
Scientists have not done enough to understand the genes from the 1918 flu.
The genes from the 1918 flu are still the primary cause of worldwide flu outbreaks.
Which of the following MOST influences current research into flu vaccines?
Chinese bird flu
proteins and antibodies
samples of the extinct virus
vaccines for other diseases
How does a person's flu history affect their immunity?
A person who has had the flu as a child is less likely to get the flu as an adult.
A person who has had the flu as a child is likely to have it worse as an adult.
A person's immunity to all kinds of flu is based on the first flu their body had.
A person's immunity to all kinds of flu is greater if they have had it many times.
