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Direction: In the following questions, you have one brief passage with 5 questions following the passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of four alternatives.

In May 1996, the World Health Organization was authorized to initiate global campaign to eradicate small pox. The goal was to eradicate the disease projects for malaria and yellow fever had failed, few believed that small pox could actually be eradicate, but eleven years after the initial organization of the campaign, no cases were reported in the field.

The strategy was not only to provide mass vaccination, but also to isolate patients with active small pox in order to contain the spread of the disease and to break the chain of human transmission. Rewards for reporting small pox assisted in motivating the public to aid health workers. One by one, each small pox victim was sought out, removed from contact with others and treated. At the same time, the entire, village where the victim had lived was vaccinated.

Today small pox is no longer a threat to humanity. Routine vaccinations have been stopped worldwide.

It can be inferred that

A)  No new cases of small pox have been reported this yea

B)  Malaria and yellow fever have been eliminated

C)  Small pox victims no longer die when they contract the disease

D)  Small pox is not transmitted from one person to another