workbook listening unit 3 epidemics Flashcards
(15 cards)
The aim of epidemologists is to find out the following about diseases: where they …. how they ….. what they ….. how we can ….
come from/spead/do/prevent them
medical term for the flu
influenza
to get ill with the flu by coming close to an infected person
to catch the flu
droplets from an infectious individual that is coughing and sneezing can transmit …
an airborne virus
obesity is transmissible in the sense that it ….
runs in families
Misnaming the 2009 flu epidemic swine flu caused unnecessary hardship since farmers….
were forced to slaughter perfectly healthy pigs
a disease that spreads from person to person is …
contagious
A VERY BIG PERCENTAGE of people with swine flu will have caught it from other people
the vast majority
the figure of 18.500 deaths caused by the swine flu is much too low compared with the actual number of deaths. Therefore, it’s …
a gross underestimation
deaths from disease or war are also called…
fatalities
To say with confidence that something is true and certain you can use the idiomatic expression….
There’s no doubt about it.
Σε πολύ λίγο χρόνο/Σε λίγους μόλις μήνες
In a matter of months
to prevent an epidemic, you ….
take precautions and use vaccinations
Our awareness of how diseases spread is heightened compared with the past. So we can say …
we’ve come a long way
a virus can APPEAR for the first time or ….
emerge
