To all staff from the hospital director

All staff should be aware that there has been an outbreak of MRSA in Wards Four and Seven. 95% of all other hospital beds are occupied and the hospital’s three isolation rooms are accommodating patients with meningitis and tuberculosis.

It is imperative that we deal with the present outbreak and protect the hospital from any other future outbreaks.

A) You are requested to first meet in pairs to come up with a plan of five actions to take which cover aspects of cleaning, hospital visitors and medical staff.

B) Next, you should meet with one other pair, compare suggestions and decline on a final action plan of the five best suggestions.

C) Your five suggestions should then be presented to a mass meeting of all staff.

3. Study sentences a-j and use the words in bold to complete definitions 1-10:

a) The disease is gone with the patient is free from all morbid signs and symptoms.

b) Despite all the treatment she received, the symptoms of the disease remained persistent.

c) We didn’t expect weight loss. It’s an atypical sign and led to the wrong diagnosis.

d) At first meningitis is hard to identify, but eventually the classic sign of hemorrhagic rash appears.

e) The final symptomatic phase of HIV is full-blown AIDS.

f) In the early stages of the disease, the initial symptoms are things like nausea and muscle pain.

g) He showed only minimal signs of disease for quite a long time and did not feel particularly ill.

h) The symptoms are progressive, starting in the spinal cord and continuing for the brain.

i) The cardinal signs of leprosy are readily recognized in countries where the disease is common.

j) Early clinical presentations of ehrlichiosis are non-specific and resemble various infections.

1) Signs and symptoms that do not go away are …

2) … signs are textbook examples.

3) A complete set of symptoms and signs are …

4) … symptoms indicate diseases or abnormality.

5) … signs and symptoms appear in a number of different diseases.

6) The sign or symptom that leads to a diagnosis is known as …

7) Signs and symptoms that are not usual are …

8) Symptoms that get worse are … symptoms.

9) … symptoms are often not noticed.

10) The … signs of infectious disease appear early on.

4. Read the following text. Be ready to answer the questions:

a) Why do some people remain healthy during epidemics?

b) What is constitutional immunity?

c) What the two groups of people in which scientists take special interest in?

Sergey Rumyantsev, M.D. working at the St. Petersburg Institute of Vaccines and Sera believes that the danger of many infectious diseases is exaggerated. For many years he has been conducting research into the so-called constitutional immunity that is the inborn insusceptibility of living organisms towards infectious diseases. For instance, there may be an infectious patient with many contacts; some of the people he contacts fall ill, others remain healthy.

At the time of such epidemics as smallpox and typhus, in exactly similar risk of contagion, some die of the disease, while others remain resistant.

These “others” are people with a special hereditary genetic immunity that gives them an inborn resistance to infectious diseases. The mechanism of constutional resistance was built up by the evolution of living organisms to create a shield against microbial aggression. Unfortunately, there are organisms that do not possess hereditary antimicrobial protection and cannot resist infection.

Research into constitutional immunity aims at the development of techniques to identify those who are insusceptible by nature and those who are particularly susceptible to one or another infection. For the latter, special preparations are synthesized that will create a shield for an organism against infectious diseases.

5. Speak about:

a) An infectious disease you were ill with;

b) Your classes in infectious diseases.

Section 8. Grammar/Use of English

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Passive Voice – Absolute Nominative Participle Construction

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(see Grammar Reference Section Unit 8)

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