赖世雄学英语第二册 lesson 11

AIDS Text: AIDS is a disease that kills. It is caused by a virus called HIV. Sharing needles or having sex with an AIDS patient spreads it. More and more people are at risk. A person with AIDS can get sick in different ways. Half of the people who ha

英闻天下——484 Measures Taken on H7N9 Virus Prevention & Control in China

In a statement issued by China's top health authority, 16 people had been confirmed as infected by H7N9 bird flu, and six of them had died. Six cases, including four deaths, were reported in Shanghai, and three cases, including two deaths, were repor

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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Thats more than a folksy aphorism when it comes to infectious diseases. Because according to a report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, its more cost effective to reduce the cases of a disease i

人教高中英语高二上UNIT7-3

The numbers are frightening: in 2002 more than 40 million people in the world were living with HIV or AIDS. Of these, about 3 million were children and more than 11 million were between 15 and 24. Since the first case was discovered in 1981, nearly 2

人教高中英语高二上UNIT7-1

Xiaohua is 12 and lives in a province in South China. She is a happy girl who smiles a lot and likes to talk to her friends after school. People who see Xiaohua would never guess that she is one of millions of children in the world living and dying

VOA双语新闻：美城市公共场所禁烟使心脏病锐减

U.S. health experts say laws that bar smoking in public places appear to dramatically cut the number of heart attacks according to a recent study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 美国健康专家说，禁止在公共场所

HEALTH REPORT - Centers for Disease Control

HEALTH REPORT - Centers for Disease Control By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Building 21 of the CDC in Atlanta, Georgia. One of

VOA标准英语2012--Much Progress, Much to Do on HIV

Much Progress, Much to Do on HIV In July, the worlds largest AIDS conference will be held in Washington, D.C. About 20 thousand delegates from 200 countries and more than two thousand journalists are expected to attend AIDS 2012. This will be the fir

CCTV9英语新闻：钟南山:MERS若无二代人传人 应较容易控制

China's best known respirologist, Zhong Nanshan, visited the South Korean Mers patient in hospital on Tuesday. He offered his advise on preventing the spread of the virus. Dr. Zhong Nanshan became famous for his work on SARS in 2003. On Tuesday morni

PBS高端访谈:阿尔茨海默症的发现及预防

JUDY WOODRUFF: Alzheimer's disease remains among the most devastating diseases that medicine has yet to crack. There's no known cure or treatment that has substantially helped curb memory loss and the decline in cognitive skills. One in eight America

World AIDS Day Finds Russia, Former Soviet Union in Grips of

By Bill Gasperini United Nations health officials say Russia and other nations of the former Soviet bloc are confronting the world's fastest-growing epidemic of HIV/AIDS. One decade ago, the countries

CDC: Too Many Americans Underestimate HIV Risk

The United States has warned that far too many Americans underestimate their risk for HIV or mistakenly believe the virus that causes AIDS is no longer a serious health threat. A statement was issued Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Pr

联合国呼吁投入更多对抗疟疾

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on the international community for more investment in tested approaches to prevent Malaria. Ban says that despite the improvement in prevention tools, there is still need to invest in getting wider access t

台湾地区发现H7N9病例（双语）

According to the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control, 5 suspected cases of the H7N9 strain have been reported but 3 have since been ruled out while the other two are still being verified. Two epidemiology experts from Taiwans CDC have arrived in Shang

Chronic diseases top killer in China

BEIJING, May 30 (Xinhuanet) -- Chronic diseases, including heart disease, stroke, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes, are the leading cause of mortality in China, representing 85 percent of all deaths, said a senior health official. Ko

More than 900,000 affected in Chinese rainstorms

BEIJING, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Torrential rain last week affected about 750,000 people in central China's Hunan province, the provincial flood control and prevention headquarters said on Monday. Heavy rain have poured on Hunan since last Wednesday. A t

学个词 Learn a Word-VOA英语教学 2362 proportion

今天我们要学的词是 proportion. Proportion 有部分的意思。A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that only a small proportion of American adults, less than 15%, eat enough fruits and vegetables. 美国疾病控

专家:MERS不会持续人传人

A 44-year-old man from South Korea is being treated in isolation. Medical staff say he suffers from a high fever and a possibly infectious pneumonia. According to authorities, the man had close contact with his father and sister, the third and fourth

China launches five-year cancer screening program

BEIJING, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- A government-backed project aimed at promoting the early diagnosis and treatment of cancer has kicked off in 14 provincial-level regions, according to the project's organizers. Lung, breast, colorectal, upper digestive tra

2016年CRI Imported Zika Cases in China Rise to Five

The two new cases involve a 38-year-old man and his eight-year-old son from Yiwu City in Zhejiang Province. Xiong Huang with the National Health and Family Planning Commission has an update on all of the patients. Currently, a Zika patient in Jiangxi