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Answer the following questions based on the passage above.

1. What symptoms did the boy have on his second day at camp in Hawaii?
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2. What prescription did the doctor give to the boy after knowing that it might be a virus?
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3. What does the word “orchitis” mean according to paragraph 2 line 3?
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4. What does the word “ED” mean according to paragraph 2 line 7?
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5. Why did the doctor assume that the boy had sexually transmitted disease?
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6. What is the result of the sexual transmission disease test?
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7. Who is Chia Wang?
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8. Why did the boy’s mother assume that her son is having a dengue fever?
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9. How could a dengue fever develop in human’s body?
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10. What should the boy do to avoid new infectious disease?
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Discuss the following questions with your friends.

1. Do you think that the specific illness as described in the passage above commonly happens in your
country?
2. It seems from the passage that several doctors have failed to accurately diagnose the boy’s illness, what are
the factors that may cause this phenomenon?
3. What is the best thing people can do to immediately detect an illness from specific symptoms?

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