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In 1975 a doctor in Singapore noticed that hospitals were treating an unusual number of influenzalike cases. Influenza is sometimes called “flu" or a “bad cold". He took samples from the throats of patients and in his hospital was able to find the virus of this influenza.
There are three main types of the influenza virus(病毒). The most important of these are type A and B, each of them having several subgroups. With the instruments at the hospital the doctor recognized that the outbreak was due to a virus in group A, but he did not know the subgroup. Then he reported the outbreak to the World Health Organization in Geneva. W.H.O. published the important news alongside reports of a similar outbreak in Hong Kong, where about 15～20% of the population had become ill.
As soon as the London doctors receive the package of throat samples, doctors began the standard tests. They found that by reproducing itself with very high speed, the virus had grown more than a million times within two days. Continuing their careful tests, the doctors checked the effect of drugs against all the known subgroups of virus type A. None of them gave any protection. This, then, was something new, a new influenza virus, against which the people of the world had no help whatever. Having found the virus they were working with, the two doctors now dropped it into the noses of some specially selected animals, which get influenza much as human beings do. In a short time the usual signs of the disease appeared. These experiments proved that the new virus was easy to catch, but that it was not a killer. Scientists, like the general public, call it simply Asian flu.
The first discovery of the virus, however, was made in China before the disease had appeared in other countries. Various reports showed that the influenza outbreak started in China, probably in February of 1957. By the middle of March it had spread all over China. The virus was found by Chinese doctors early in March. But China is not a member of the World Health Organization and therefore does not report outbreaks of disease to it. Not until two months later, when travelers carried the virus into Hong Kong, from where it spread to Singapore, did the news of the outbreak reach the rest of the world. By this time it was started on its way around the world.
Thereafter, W.H.O.&39;s Weekly Reports described the steady spread of this virus outbreak, which within four months swept through every continent.
1. The doctor in Singapore performed a valuable service by
2. One interesting thing about the virus in the story was that
3. The type of influenza discussed in the story
4. The experiments in giving the virus to animals proved that this type of influenza was easy to catch but
5. One reason why the outbreak of the disease was not discovered sooner
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The school offers accommodation in SHARED self-catering student apartments. These can be booked together with the course. Each apartment is used by 5 to 9 students from Elanguest and you can reserve either a double room or a single room. The prices are quoted per person per day and not per apartment. This gives you the opportunity of sharing an apartment with other students even if you are coming to Malta on your own.
The prices per person per day in our SHARED apartments for 2002
Period Shared room Single Room
01 Jan—03 March ￡3.00 ￡4.50
04 March—30 June ￡4.50 ￡6.50
01 July—31 Aug ￡5.50 ￡7.50
01 Sept—31 Oct ￡5.00 ￡7.00
01 Nov—15 Dec ￡3.50 ￡5.00
These apartments are equipped with the following:
Bed linen(which is laundered by the school on a regular basis, one towel per student, weekly cleaning of common areas, all kitchen equipment—pots, pans, cutlery, dishes etc. and use of a washing machine in nearly all cases. Telephones are NOT included. See information on the area of St. Julians for more details.
(If you need an apartment for "sole use"—that is, booking an entire apartment, the price cannot be given until a suitable apartment is found. The apartment will then be reserved after the receipt of a negotiable deposit.)
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