时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2016年9月


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In the U.S., flu season starts next month. It's a time when flu epidemics 1 often break out in the country. The Centers for Disease Control says it can last from October to May. This year, a group of American Pediatrician says flu mist, a nasal spray, designed to prevent the flu, should not be an option.


The reason: this summer, the CDC said it was not very effective.


Doctors are still recommending that Americans get the flu shot, just not the mist. They say everyone six months and older should be vaccinated 2 and that that's the best protection against getting the flu. Vaccinations 3 are not 100 percent effective. There's a chance you get the shot and still catch the flu. You just wouldn't get it from the shot itself.


DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Let me try and settle this flu shot thing, although I'm sure it's going to keep coming up again and again.


SUBTITLE 4: Debunking 5 flu myths.


GUPTA: You can't get the flu from the flu shot. It's a dead virus, it can't actually cause flu. Why do people feel sort of crummy afterward 6?


It's because the flu vaccine 7 is actually working, making your immune system fire up, get ready and recognize it, if it actually sees the flu, how to kill it.


No, it's not 100 percent fail safe. But it's still going to offer a lot of protection, so you are not going to be as sick as likely to get sick or if you do get sick, have a shorter duration.


OK, so if you are like me, your mom probably said don't go outside in the cold without your hat on, you are going to catch the flu. You can't catch the flu from just simply being outside in the cold.


But it does raise the question, why are there so many more flu cases in the winter months? You are likely to stay indoors more. So, if one person is sick, more people are likely to get sick.


The sun is lower in the sky, and as a result, you have less Vitamin D actually being produced in your body. Your immune system starts to get suppressed a little bit. You are more likely to get sick with the flu.


Winter months tend to be lower humidity. Viruses like the flu virus they like lower humidity. They are likely to live longer.


So, your mom may have been right: I mean look, moms are always right, but maybe not for the reasons you originally thought.



1 epidemics
n.流行病
  • Reliance upon natural epidemics may be both time-consuming and misleading. 依靠天然的流行既浪费时间,又会引入歧途。
  • The antibiotic epidemics usually start stop when the summer rainy season begins. 传染病通常会在夏天的雨季停止传播。
2 vaccinated
[医]已接种的,种痘的,接种过疫菌的
  • I was vaccinated against tetanus. 我接种了破伤风疫苗。
  • Were you vaccinated against smallpox as a child? 你小时候打过天花疫苗吗?
3 vaccinations
n.种痘,接种( vaccination的名词复数 );牛痘疤
  • Vaccinations ensure one against diseases. 接种疫苗可以预防疾病。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • I read some publicity about vaccinations while waiting my turn at the doctor's. 在医生那儿候诊时,我读了一些关于接种疫苗的宣传。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 subtitle
n.副题(书本中的),说明对白的字幕
  • His new book has a subtitle.他的新书有一个副标题。
  • Ah!I don't know why they don't subtitle these movies.唉!我不知道这些电影为什么不打字幕。
5 debunking
v.揭穿真相,暴露( debunk的现在分词 )
  • The debunking of religion has been too successful. 对于宗教的揭露太成功了。 来自互联网
6 afterward
adv.后来;以后
  • Let's go to the theatre first and eat afterward. 让我们先去看戏,然后吃饭。
  • Afterward,the boy became a very famous artist.后来,这男孩成为一个很有名的艺术家。
7 vaccine
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。
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access procedure
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