u QUESTIONS Read the passage. Then listen to the news and fill in the blanks with the information (words, phrases or sentences) you hear. l What is coronavirus? This is a very large outbreak. This is Dr. Bill Schaffner, I’m an [Q1] ___________ disease specialist and public health person. Coronaviruses are a whole family of viruses. For the most part, they don’t cause any real clinical illness except the [Q2] __________________. But you know, from time to time, there’s a rogue coronavirus that develops. We remember SARS 2002, 2003. And then there was another, the MERS virus, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome virus. This new virus, like those other rogue viruses, probably was first [Q3] __________________ to humans from animals. l What are the symptoms? So the symptoms resemble [Q4] _______________. It’s a respiratory virus initially. And so you have [Q5] ________________, not feeling very well, [Q6] ______________ and just feeling poorly. l Is there a cure? We don’t have a direct anti-coronavirus treatment. We can manage the patients through [Q7] _______________________________________, of course. And many patients already, the Chinese have said, have survived this infection. l How to stop the spread? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have this top of the mind. They have deployed over a hundred people to New York, to San Francisco and Los Angeles. They will be screening people who are arriving from [Q8] ___________________ Wuhan, China to see whether they are sick. So there are laboratories around the world, including our own national institutes of health, that are now, already working on developing a rapid [Q9] _________________ and the other thing they’re doing is starting to work on a [Q10] _____________________. The global community is really watching this with [Q11] __________________. And we in the United States definitely are [Q12] _____________________ and ready to respond.