时间:2019-01-02 作者:英语课 分类:英伦广角


英语课

 - Are you happy to go ahead?


 
- Yes.
 
- Now you have any questions?
 
- No.
 
Without a hint of nerves, the first person to have an experimental Ebola vaccine 1 takes the plunge 2. Ruth Atkins is one of 60 healthy volunteers in Britain to be given a jab as part of a clinic trial and she's paid just 380 pounds, not for the risk, but for any loss of earnings 3. The vaccine's cleared tests in monkeys, but scientists need to be sure it's safe and effective before using it on the front line of the Ebola epidemic 4.
 
- My 15-year-old son, he thought it was Ebola I'm having and he asked was I going to die and where is my will and how much do they get. My 12-year-old daughter was concerned but also said well done mum for what you're doing. This is that one step I'm a part of that first step and you get some vaccine they know they got the right vaccine and they can start giving it and that's gonna make a difference in people's lives.
 
The vaccine is made from harmless virus common in chimpanzees that has been modified to carry a small piece of Ebola DNA 5. Once in patients, the virus will make a single Ebola protein. It won't cause the disease, but it should be enough to prime the immune system to attack the Ebola virus if it's ever encounter in future.
 
- The good thing about this vaccine is it probably doesn't need to work for 5 years or even 5 months if it had higher efficacy for 2 or 3 months, that would be very valuable and technically 6 that's easier to do than to make a vaccine that works for a decade.
 
Volunteers would be given varying amount of vaccine to find a dose that triggers a good immune response without causing serious side-effects. Normally it would take 18 months or more for a vaccine to go through clinic trials but such as the desperate need to protect health workers who are putting their lives on the line by treating Ebola patients that this one is being fast tracked even while clinic trials are underway. GlaxoSmithKline is producing 10,000 doses ready to be sent out to west Africa as soon as they get the green light. But there won't be anywhere near enough of the vaccine for local people. The Ebola epidemic is out of control in the Sierra Leone and Liberia and the doctors who discovered the virus told Sky New that thousand of people are still likely to die.
 
- One of lessons is that, of this epidemic is that we need to make sure that we accelerate the ways that we test and evaluate the drugs, vaccines 7 also. If we would have done it in the beginning of the epidemic, we would probably already have an answer.
 
Quarantine of patients and rapid tracing of their contacts is currently the only way to beat the virus. The World Health Organization has welcomed 3000 US military personnel being sent to the region to build field hospitals with 1,700 beds. It's not enough, but it's a start.  
 
Thomas Moore, Sky News

n.牛痘苗,疫苗;adj.牛痘的,疫苗的
  • The polio vaccine has saved millions of lives.脊髓灰质炎疫苗挽救了数以百万计的生命。
  • She takes a vaccine against influenza every fall.她每年秋季接种流感疫苗。
v.跳入,(使)投入,(使)陷入;猛冲
  • Test pool's water temperature before you plunge in.在你跳入之前你应该测试水温。
  • That would plunge them in the broil of the two countries.那将会使他们陷入这两国的争斗之中。
n.工资收人;利润,利益,所得
  • That old man lives on the earnings of his daughter.那个老人靠他女儿的收入维持生活。
  • Last year there was a 20% decrease in his earnings.去年他的收入减少了20%。
n.流行病;盛行;adj.流行性的,流传极广的
  • That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.那种传染病早已绝迹。
  • The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.当局试图把流行病限制在局部范围。
(缩)deoxyribonucleic acid 脱氧核糖核酸
  • DNA is stored in the nucleus of a cell.脱氧核糖核酸储存于细胞的细胞核里。
  • Gene mutations are alterations in the DNA code.基因突变是指DNA密码的改变。
adv.专门地,技术上地
  • Technically it is the most advanced equipment ever.从技术上说,这是最先进的设备。
  • The tomato is technically a fruit,although it is eaten as a vegetable.严格地说,西红柿是一种水果,尽管它是当作蔬菜吃的。
疫苗,痘苗( vaccine的名词复数 )
  • His team are at the forefront of scientific research into vaccines. 他的小组处于疫苗科研的最前沿。
  • The vaccines were kept cool in refrigerators. 疫苗放在冰箱中冷藏。
学英语单词
account payables
acquired immune deficiency syndromes
adaptive line enhancer
amatea
aneidess
as slick as a whistle
assets revaluation law
Bac Son
balling-iron
bartle freres
base camps
be soaked through
biotite polzenite
boat neck,boat neckline
capital of Swaziland
caprea
cash contract
certificate for cargo gear
Cheremnykhite
church organs
closeout
codon
common polypodies
continuous current electromotor
coralla
dead end clamp
decimate
deterministic case
Dischidia
dodaro
double engine plane
egg-flip
el aabde (el abde)
electron-coupled oscillator
flabellospora irregularis
floating-point indicator
flow-measurement integration
fluorocarbon film
formal calculus
genus Cola
gun-shier
haertel
heading blasting
homilete
hour counter additional intermediate wheel
inner arm
inrolls
interactive graphic
interval contacts
ion strength
ion well
Jamaica sorrel
jobclubs
kid around
lapping switch
lattanzi
Lerrain
lithium dichromate
logged onto
makeup valve
meristem culture
most-favo(u)red reinsurance clause
Mungindi
muscle of incisure of helix
nanoscales
non-propelled craft
ODINSUP
omening
optical mixing phase conjugation
outside butt strap
pervibrator
pilow
pinyin
plane of living
proactive aggression
pustule
quadrature phase subcarrier signal
quasi-proprietary
reacting weight
report of disclaimer of opinion
resident unit
restriction of import
retrosternal
ski club
skyrise
snub
Somasian
sonali
spectrophysics
technical code
Telecom Tower
test-drove
tie-back stub liner
tonic accent
tvga
two-way mixed tricot
ureosmotic animal
Vila Seca
wall paper music
Y network
ye'se