时间:2019-01-04 作者:英语课 分类:VOA2004(下)--健康科技


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By Nancy-Amelia Collins
 
A World Health Organization official has warned of the likelihood of more human deaths from the bird flu virus, after the death of a teenage boy in Thailand this week.


On Wednesday, an 18-year-old Thai boy , who raised fighting cocks, became Asia's 28th human victim of bird flu this year.


Komsan Fukhom contracted the H5N1 strain of the virus late last month following the death of 30 of his birds. The teenager initially 1 refused medical treatment, and doctors say when he did enter the hospital, it was too late to save him.


Thai health officials have now placed a 16-year-old, who was close to the victim and who also handled the birds, under watch for signs of the disease.


An earlier outbreak of the virus this year left eight people dead in Thailand and 16 in Vietnam. Tens of millions of fowl 2 across the region died or were slaughtered 3 to stop the spread of the disease, devastating 4 poultry 5 industries.


The virus re-emerged in July in Vietnam, Thailand, China, Malaysia and Indonesia. Three more people died in Vietnam.


Peter Cordingley, the WHO's Western Pacific Office spokesman, says this is not the end of human death from bird flu.


"We think the virus is in the environment," said Peter Cordingley. "Almost no progress has been made in the big job of eradicating 6 it. So, I'm afraid that almost certain, there's going to be more human deaths and more outbreaks in poultry, until we get something like a grip on [get control of] this."


The WHO spokesman says the disease is now endemic in Asia, and the focus has to be on containment 7.


"I think the early target should be containment," he said. "That works through surveillance, infection control, transparency - reporting when there are problems, so that the right responses can be put in place."


So far, only people who have come into contact with infected poultry have contracted the disease.


But health officials worldwide are concerned the flu virus could change to a form that can be transmitted from human to human, possibly causing a global flu pandemic.


Nancy-Amelia Collins, for VOA News, Bangkok.
 
 
注释:
likelihood 可能
H5N1甲型禽流感
initially 最初
Vietnam 越南
fowl 家禽
slaughter 屠宰
devastate 破坏
re-emerge 重现
Malaysia 马来西亚
endemic 地方的
containment 遏制
surveillance 监控



adv.最初,开始
  • The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
  • Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。
n.家禽,鸡,禽肉
  • Fowl is not part of a traditional brunch.禽肉不是传统的早午餐的一部分。
  • Since my heart attack,I've eaten more fish and fowl and less red meat.自从我患了心脏病后,我就多吃鱼肉和禽肉,少吃红色肉类。
v.屠杀,杀戮,屠宰( slaughter的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The invading army slaughtered a lot of people. 侵略军杀了许多人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Hundreds of innocent civilians were cruelly slaughtered. 数百名无辜平民遭残杀。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.毁灭性的,令人震惊的,强有力的
  • It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
  • Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。
n.家禽,禽肉
  • There is not much poultry in the shops. 商店里禽肉不太多。
  • What do you feed the poultry on? 你们用什么饲料喂养家禽?
摧毁,完全根除( eradicate的现在分词 )
  • Objective: To study the acute and chronic toxicity of Ten-flavor-acne eradicating-capsule. 目的:探讨复方中药合剂十味平痤胶囊的急性及慢性毒性。
  • We are on the verge of eradicating polio in the world. 我们已在世界消除小儿?痹症的边缘了。
n.阻止,遏制;容量
  • Your list might include such things as cost containment,quality,or customer satisfaction.你的清单上应列有诸如成本控制、产品质量、客户满意程度等内容。
  • Insularity and self-containment,it is argued,go hand in hand.他们争论说,心胸狭窄和自我封闭是并存的。
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abscess of sclera
acetylglucosaminidase
acoloutha
active water
adductive crystallization
amobi
Asia Society Museum
beretta
biflagellate
Brooks, Gwendolyn
bull-fighter
cathedrated
Chahārcheshmeh
checking account money
climbing number
coarse stuff
community-outreach
continent-continent collision
continued fraction expansion
Coplin jar
cut out jack
Dawlyady
deformational episode
defy (all) description
Dermatophagoides takeuchii
discharge mechanism
dithianaphthyl
Dobrany
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dryscape
ejector sleeve
electroaugmentation
Eragrostis ciliaris
false timbering
food-allergy
gonycampsis
Grabauites
graptolite
greenhouse covering
grooved roller breaker
group of figure
Hanjīrak
hatch ladder
haulage by train
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hold a post
indian choleras
input output coefficient
insectivorous plants
isolation mount
jet airplane
Kadenacy effect
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league standings
lichen simplex chronicus
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Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
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maladerie
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monkton
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northern firmosses
oil temperature gauge
overscreened
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piadina
pictoresque
privilege against self incriminations
queyere
replenishment of material stock
Rossendale
rough carriage
sandberries
secondary critical path
semi-automatic book sewing machine
service improvement
shift clock
showcaves
single sideband signal
single-reversible tramway
sonne's dysentery
spiraliform
subsultatory
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three strand sennit
top-hung
tubesheet
typical architecture
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vacuum covering
vapour recompression
vicelinge
withholding detain
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