English

Theodore Monroe

20 April, 06:15

Read this excerpt from When Birds Get Flu.

vaccine

(vak-SEEN) an injection given to prevent a specific illness. It's usually made from a very weak version of the organism that causes the disease, so the human body can learn to fight it off.

The problem is that we don't have a vaccine for this disease.

quarantine

(KWOR-uhn-teen) the act of keeping people who might become sick away from healthy ones

We're going to have to put these patients into quarantine.

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