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    Pays : Burkina Faso Année : 2017 Épreuve : Anglais


    Examen : Bac, 1er Tour, Séries C-D Durée : 2 h Coefficient : 2

    TEXT: Bas-Congo virus


    In 2009, two teenagers in the Democratic Republic of Congo showed up at
    their village health clinic, vomiting and with blood in their noses and mouths -
    hemorrhagic symptoms of the notorious Ebola viruses. In three days they were dead.
    Yet it took three years for researchers to unmask the likely culprit: a brand-new virus
    called Bas-Congo, which is not related to Ebola or any other virus known to cause
    severe hemorrhagic fever.
    It can take weeks or months to identify a novel virus, and much longer if the
    sample must be sent to a specialized lab, as the Bas-Congo virus was. Such
    latenesses are too long, says virologist Charles Chiu, director of the Viral Diagnotics
    and Discovery Center at the University of California in San Francisco. Deciphering a
    virus’s genetic code is the critical first step in determining how fast it might spread,
    identifying possible treatments and even finding vaccines. Viruses like the one that
    killed the Congolese teens can quickly go global, and traditional methods for
    identifying viruses, which only test for one pathogen at a time, could mean sacrificing
    untold lives.
    But Chiu and his colleagues have found a way to speed up virus identification
    a method they hope will one day help health care workers in remote areas identify
    new viruses as soon as they appear, as long as they are able to access the Web.
    Typically, it takes three months to piece together a complete viral genetic
    code. The new process can identify an unknown virus in less than two hours, and
    Chiu’s team can put together the entire genetic code of a virus in a single day.
    Chiu and his team hope to put their virus-identifying system on the Web so
    health workers anywhere can access it.
    Chiu’s vision: when patients show up at a clinic with an unknown pathogen,
    health care workers could take blood samples and run DNA sequences onsite, then
    use smartphones or laptops to feed the results to an online network that would deliver
    results in minutes.

    Adapted from Cameron Walker, “The Race to Peg a Virus”


    in Discover, December 2013, p. 20.

    GUIDED COMMENTARY (20 points)

    1. Relying on the text, enumerate two symptoms of the disease which killed the
    Congolese teenagers.
    2. Basing on the text, say, in your own words, why it took three years to identify the
    Bas-Congo virus.
    3. According to the text, how do scientists proceed when they discover a new virus?
    4. Referring to the text, what are the benefits of Chiu’s findings for health
    professionals?
    5. In your opinion, how can transmissible diseases be prevented in your country?

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