“The global triumph of antibiotic therapy in the mid-twentieth century fostered an optimism that infectious disease would soon be vanquished. Yet, by the late twentieth century, this optimism was shattered by the resurgence of tuberculosis. In developing nations, the rapid and often unplanned growth of urban centers led to crowded informal settlements with deficient sanitation, providing fertile ground for transmission. In parallel, underfunded public health systems frequently failed to ensure patients completed their treatment courses, accelerating the evolution of multi-drug-resistant strains. Facilitated by the expansion of global commercial aviation, these resistant pathogens easily bypassed national borders, demonstrating that medical innovation cannot be divorced from global economic disparities.”
Which of the following factors best explains why technological advances in medicine failed to eradicate tuberculosis in the late twentieth century, as described in the passage?
- The persistence of socioeconomic inequalities and underfunded infrastructure in rapidly growing urban centers.Cevap
- BThe redirecting of international health funding to the Green Revolution's environmental conservation initiatives.
- CThe total cultural homogenization of developing societies, which led to the eradication of all indigenous healing methods.
- DThe dominance of mercantilist economic policies, which restricted the exchange of pharmaceutical goods to colonial mother countries.