a) Why were people particularly worried when the first case of Ebola in Nigeria occurred in the city of Lagos?

b) What was done to reduce the fears of people who were treating and coming into contact with people who had the Ebola virus?

c) Name three symptoms that Patrick Sawyer had before he was diagnosed correctly.

d) Explain what the following sentence means in your own words: ‘The diagnosis of the first case of Ebola in Lagos, Nigeria, in July 2014 set off alarm bells around the world.’

a) Measles is a common childhood ______.

b) The doctor’s ______ of flu was a relief because I was worried that I had malaria.

c) The ______ of Ebola in West Africa took place in 2014.

d) Twenty million people died worldwide in the flu ______ of 1918.

e) Muyiwa has had a ______ for days, but I hope his temperature will drop soon.

f) We were delighted at the news of the child’s sudden ______.

g) The HI ______ has spread worldwide since the 1980s.

h) My friend Foluso often suffers from a lung ______.

B. carefree and humorous

C. mostly formal

D. informal in a few places

A. verbose

E. very informal

C. is a very subjective account of the Ebola crisis

D. is written by a medical doctor

B. includes facts and statistics, as well as emotive language, so it is a mixture of objective and subjective writing

is a factual and objective account of the Ebola crisis