Read the information in Text 1, published by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Text 1
Monkeypox is nothing new, and the virus is endemic in several countries. But when cases started appearing beyond the expected places—and among people who didn’t travel to those endemic regions—researchers paid attention. [...] We’ve been aware of monkeypox for decades, and we have been interested in it mostly because it’s a cousin of smallpox. It is a related orthopoxvirus. The symptoms, although somewhat less severe, are quite similar to smallpox. In most cases, it causes relatively mild illness, meaning most people don’t end up in the hospital with it. [...] It spreads through large respiratory droplets and bodily fluids, so mostly it spreads through close or intimate contact with other people. It’s not highly contagious— nothing like COVID, for example. [...] The Monkeypox virus does tend to be a very stable virus. Unlike COVID, or flu that’s mutating constantly, the orthopoxviruses tend to be quite stable. I think the expectation is that the vaccines would still be effective.
(Source: Adapted from What You Need to Know About Monkeypox | Johns Hopkins | Bloomberg School of Public Health (jhu.edu), retrieved on 23rd Sep, 2024)
According to Text 1, analyse whether the statements that follow are true (T) or false (F).
I ( ) Monkeypox is a recently discovered virus that has drawn researchers' attention.
II ( ) Monkeypox and smallpox are caused by viruses that belong to the same family.
III ( ) Usually, the symptoms of smallpox do not result in severe manifestations or health problems and are generally not serious, unlike those of the monkeypox.
IV ( ) The monkeypox virus mutates constantly. Covid and the flu viruses are likely to be quite stable.
V ( ) It's expected that the vaccines for monkeypox, smallpox, Covid, and the flu are effective because these viruses are relatively stable.
VI ( ) Some regions of the world experience ongoing levels of monkeypox rather than occasional outbreaks.
The statements I to VI are respectively:
- A T - T - F - F - F - T
- B F - T - F - T - F - F
- C F - T - F - F - F - T
- D F - F - T - F - T - T