Exercise 11. Complete the text with the prepositions from the box bellow. Open the brackets and use verbs in the correct tense and voice. Translate the text into Ukrainian.

History

… 1878, Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Alice and her family (to become infected) with diphtheria, causing two deaths, Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Alice herself.

In the 1920s there were an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 cases of diphtheria … year in the United States, causing 13,000 to 15,000 deaths per year. Children represented a large majority of these cases and fatalities. One of the most famous outbreaks of diphtheria (to be) in Nome, Alaska; the "Great Race of Mercy" to deliver diphtheria antitoxin is now celebrated... the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

… of the first effective treatments for diphtheria (to discover) in the 1880s by U.S. physician Joseph O'Dwyer (1841–1898). O'Dwyer developed tubes that (to insert) … the throat, and prevented victims from suffocating due to the membrane sheath (оболонка) that grows over and obstructs airways. In 1884 Friedrich Loeffler discovered the causative organism (Corynebacterium diphtheriae). In the 1890s, the German physician Emil von Behring developed an antitoxin that did not kill the bacterium, but neutralized the toxic poisons that the bacterium releases into the body. Von Behring discovered that animal blood has antitoxins in it and so he took the blood, removed the clotting agents and injected it into human patients. Von Behring (to award) the first Nobel Prize in Medicine for his role in the discovery, and development of a serum therapy … diphtheria. (Americans William H. Park and Anna Wessels Williams; and Pasteur Institute scientists Emile Roux and Auguste Chaillou also independently developed diphtheria antitoxin in the 1890s.) The first successful vaccine for diphtheria (to develop) in 1913 by Behring. However, antibiotics …. diphtheria were not available until the discovery and development of sulfa drugs.

The Schick test, invented between 1910 and 1911, is a test used to determine whether or not a person is susceptible to diphtheria. It was named …. its inventor (винахідник) Béla Schick (1877–1967), a Hungarian-born American pediatrician. A massive five-year campaign was coordinated by Dr. Schick. As a part of the campaign, 85 million pieces of literature were distributed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company with an appeal (звернення) … parents to "Save your child from diphtheria." A vaccine was developed in the next decade, and deaths began declining in earnest in 1924.

In early May 2010, a case … diphtheria (to diagnose) in Port-au-Prince, Haiti after the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake. The 15 year- old- male patient (to die) while workers searched for antitoxin.

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