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The most rational public health policy would shift more focus to preventing disease transmission. Why? Because medicine is being outpaced by the evolution of disease-causing microorganisms, and this nulls our previous plan to rely on medical research to combat disease.
The conclusion advocates for a strategy shift: “The most rational public health strategy, therefore, would place much more emphasis than at present on fully informing people about the transmission of diseases caused by microorganisms, with a view to minimizing the incidence of such diseases.”
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This is premise. (A) supports that we need to take measures beyond medicine to fight disease (i.e. transmission prevention).
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The author doesn’t address this. She acknowledges that use of a particular medicine may lead to future failing of that medicine, but we don’t know whether that medicine is presently effective.
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This is a good rephrasing of the conclusion. The conclusion identifies the appeal of shifting the focus of public health policy to education that can minimize disease spread.
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Too strong. The author says that informing the public would be rational, she never says it’s foolproof. Also, the focus of the conclusion is on shifting public health strategy; even if (D) wasn’t too strong, it would be premise.
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We don’t know if previous approaches ignored the reproduction. Also, the conclusion concerns future public health policy, not past.
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