Exercise 12. Match the terms with their explanation

1. nutrition	a. a disorder with a specific cause and recognizable signs and symptoms
2. vaccine	b. the state of being diseased
3. morbidity	c. the incidence of death in the population in a given period
4. poliomyelitis	d. the intake of nutrients and their absorption and assimilation by the tissues
5. disease	e. a special preparation of antigenic material that can be used to stimulate the development of antibodies
6. mortality	f. an infectious virus disease affecting the central nervous system

Exercise 13. Agree or disagree with the statements given below. The following phrases may be helpful.

Indeed, sure, certainly, I can’t agree, nothing of the kind, far from it, that goes without saying

1. The WHO is a specialized agency concerned with international public health.

2. The Supreme body of the WHO is in Paris, France.

3. Malaria is a noncommunicable disease.

4. The WHO is not interested in nutrition, food security and healthy eating.

5. Smallpox is widely spread on the Earth.

6. The priorities of the WHO policy are communicable diseases, in particular, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and others.

7. Besides epidemic information the WHO provides other services, i.e. quarantine measures, standardization of medicines, statistics, etc.

8. The emphasis of the WHO work is more on prevention than on cure.