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Directions : In this section, you have a short passage. After the passage, you will find some items based on the passage. Read the passage carefully and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and the opinion of author only. 

We live in a time when globalisation is rapidly encompassing travel, information, trade and investment. The internet ties people together in ways unimagined a few years ago. The globalisation of health, however, remains an elusive goal, similar to the globalisation of economic well-being. Laurie Garrett, in The Coming Plague, describes an unwelcome form of globalisation: the globalisation of disease. Garrett examines the recent history of emerging diseases such as AIDS, Ebola, Hantavirus, Rift Valley Fever, Legionnaires’ disease, and others. She also explains the resurgence of familiar diseases like tuberculosis, cholera, and pneumonia as a consequence of the widespread and unwise use of antibiotics. Many of the new diseases are clearly linked to changes in land use, which ~ brings humans into close contacts with rodents or other animals that harbour viruses previously unknown to medicine and often deadly to humans. Resurgent diseases, by contrast, are a creation of our medical practice. By treating people with antibiotics without restraint, we unknowingly select strains that are immune to the antibiotics and that pass on their resistant genes to unrelated bacteria by way of plasmid transfer. The heroes of her book are the women and men on the frontlines of epidemiology. Garrett makes a plea for a greater commitment from our universities, medical schools, and government agencies to train workers who will be capable of recognizing new diseases and who will be able to move about equally well in the laboratory, the hospital and the field in pursuit of knowledge and public-health intervention around the world.  

What according to the passage is the 'unwelcome form of the globalization'?

1. Globalization of the diseases

2. Elusive goal of globalization

3. History of fatal diseases

4. Selective use of antibiotics

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

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  1. 1 only
  2. 2, 3 and 4
  3. 3 only
  4. 1 and 4

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Option 1 : 1 only
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The correct answer is Option 1.
 
Key Points
  • The passage mentions that Laurie Garrett describes an unwelcome form of globalisation as the globalisation of diseases.
  • Garrett examines emerging and resurgent diseases influenced by global practices and changes in land use.
  • The primary focus is on how diseases spread globally due to these factors, marking it as an unwelcome form of globalisation.
Therefore, the correct answer is Option 1.
 
Additional Information
  • Option 2: Elusive goal of globalization - While mentioned, this is not the 'unwelcome form of globalization' described in the passage.
  • Option 3: History of fatal diseases - Although history of diseases is discussed, it is not identified as the unwelcome form of globalization.
  • Option 4: Selective use of antibiotics - This contributes to resurgent diseases but is not described as an unwelcome form of globalization in the passage.
  • Option 1 and 4 - This combination includes the correct option, but the specific answer is summarized correctly as 'Globalization of the diseases'.
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