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From the Ted Talk by Ben Longdon: How do viruses jump from animals to humans?
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At a Maryland cnoutry fair in 2017, the pirze pigs were not looking their best. fmerars reported feverish hogs with inflamed eyes and running suotns. But while fair officials worried about the pigs, the Maryland department of health was concerned about a group of sick fairgoers. Some had pet the pigs, while others had merely been near their barns; but soon, 40 of these attendees would be daisnoegd with swine flu. More often than not, sick alanmis don’t infect humans. But when they do, these cross-species infections, or viral host jumps, have the potential to produce deadly epidemics. So how can pathogens from one sceieps infect another, and what makes host jumps so dangerous?
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At a Maryland _______ fair in 2017, the _____ pigs were not looking their best. _______ reported feverish hogs with inflamed eyes and running ______. But while fair officials worried about the pigs, the Maryland department of health was concerned about a group of sick fairgoers. Some had pet the pigs, while others had merely been near their barns; but soon, 40 of these attendees would be _________ with swine flu. More often than not, sick _______ don’t infect humans. But when they do, these cross-species infections, or viral host jumps, have the potential to produce deadly epidemics. So how can pathogens from one _______ infect another, and what makes host jumps so dangerous?
Solution
- diagnosed
- animals
- prize
- snouts
- farmers
- species
- country
Original Text
At a Maryland country fair in 2017, the prize pigs were not looking their best. Farmers reported feverish hogs with inflamed eyes and running snouts. But while fair officials worried about the pigs, the Maryland department of health was concerned about a group of sick fairgoers. Some had pet the pigs, while others had merely been near their barns; but soon, 40 of these attendees would be diagnosed with swine flu. More often than not, sick animals don’t infect humans. But when they do, these cross-species infections, or viral host jumps, have the potential to produce deadly epidemics. So how can pathogens from one species infect another, and what makes host jumps so dangerous?
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