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