2006年VOA标准英语-Disease Kills Thousands in Sudan
时间：2019-01-07 作者：英语课 分类：2006年VOA标准英语（一月）
By Ernest Leong
Washington, D.C.
03 January 2006
See report on Sudan
According to the World Health Organization, there are 500,000 new cases of kala azar per year. Kala azar is a deadly epidemic 1 spreading through impoverished 2 regions in sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil and Southeast Asia. Africa's Sudan is one of the countries hardest hit by this disease.
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Sudan kala-azar victim Nyatudy Riak Marial being carried by family in Kotch South Sudan
Over the years, civil war, famine and drought have taken their toll 3 on the Sudanese. Another constant enemy is disease. A new epidemic of kala azar is sweeping 4 through southern Sudan, killing 5 thousands.
Kala azar is a brutal 6 disease, easily and quickly spread. Dr. Erwin de Vries is with Medecins Sans Frontieres [Doctors without Borders], or M-S-F.
"You catch it like malaria 7 -- from a sand fly -- and it wastes you as if you have HIV/AIDS, he says"
Sudan Medecins Sans Frontieres Dr. Erwin de Vries, in Lankien
Kala azar is a systemic disease affecting the immune system. Its symptoms include fever, anemia 8, weakness and wasting.
"Within a few months time you will look like a skeleton and you will be dead," adds the doctor.
M-S-F physicians are battling the epidemic. Resistant 9 strains of the disease have developed.
The treatment for kala azar with compounds of Antimony takes 17 days to work. An experimental vaccine 10 is undergoing clinical trials. For those who can get treatment, the survival rate in Sudan is 90 percent.
But health facilities are limited in Sudan. A recent UN report estimates there is only one doctor for every 100,000 people in southern Sudan. And malnutrition 11 is making a bad situation worse.
Sudan baby with intravenous tube in hand crying
Pete Buth is M-S-F's Operational Director in southern Sudan. "People are facing a daily struggle for survival because of a lack of food, because that is normal in this place."
The European Union recently allocated 12 165 million euros to help battle disease in Africa. Sudan will be the biggest recipient 13.
- 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。
- the impoverished areas of the city 这个城市的贫民区
- They were impoverished by a prolonged spell of unemployment. 他们因长期失业而一贫如洗。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
- The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
- The citizens voted for sweeping reforms.公民投票支持全面的改革。
- Can you hear the wind sweeping through the branches?你能听到风掠过树枝的声音吗？
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
- She has to face the brutal reality.她不得不去面对冷酷的现实。
- They're brutal people behind their civilised veneer.他们表面上温文有礼，骨子里却是野蛮残忍。
- He had frequent attacks of malaria.他常患疟疾。
- Malaria is a kind of serious malady.疟疾是一种严重的疾病。
- The doctors analyzed the blood sample for anemia. 医生们分析了贫血的血样。
- I was put on iron tablets for my anemia.我曾因贫血吃补铁药片。
- Many pests are resistant to the insecticide.许多害虫对这种杀虫剂有抵抗力。
- They imposed their government by force on the resistant population.他们以武力把自己的统治强加在持反抗态度的人民头上。
- 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。
- In Africa, there are a lot of children suffering from severe malnutrition.在非洲有大批严重营养不良的孩子。
- It is a classic case of malnutrition. 这是营养不良的典型病例。