eading Comprehension
PART o Mark each statement T for true or F for false. Rewrite the false
statements to make them true.
In the^1800 s, more than 20 million people were diagnosed with smallpox each year.
Smallpox rendered people bald and caused an intolerable rash that left gross scars.
Laws were enacted to prohibit sick people from mixing with healthy people.
4. The wealthier countries pledged to give North America a vaccine to counteract
smallpox.
5. The humane efforts of people everywhere helped to successfully stop smallpox.
PART O Answer the questions.
- What did people suffer from at the onset of smallpox?
- What did the federation of countries collaborate in order to do?
3. Why couldn’t the needy peoples’ countries curb the spread of smallpox?
4. What did doctors do to help reduce the spread of smallpox?
5. Who certified that smallpox had been stopped in December of 1979?