VOA慢速英语 2008 0416a
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：VOA慢速英语2008年（四）月
Researchers in China have reported on a rare human-to-human case of bird flu. They say it is likely that a twenty-four year old man in the eastern province of Jiangsu infected his father last December.
They believe it happened while the father cared for the son in a hospital. The son died. The father lived.
Government researchers say genetic 1 tests showed almost identical forms of the H5N1 virus in the two men. Ninety-one other people came in close contact with them but did not get infected.
The report appeared last week in the Lancet medical journal.
On April third, the World Health Organization said a family in Pakistan showed a high probability 2 of human-to-human infection in a case last year. In that case, an animal doctor was infected with the avian flu virus when he helped destroy diseased birds in Peshawar. His three brothers became infected later although they had no contact with diseased birds.
Gregory Hartl is a project leader in the W.H.O.’s Epidemic 3 and Pandemic Alert 4 and Response office in Geneva. He says experts can never confirm one hundred percent that human-to-human infection with the virus has taken place. But he says there seems to have been at least six cases, including the ones in Pakistan and China in two thousand seven.
Scientists worry that the virus might change over time into a form that passes easily among humans.
In other developments, Egypt reported its third death from H5N1 in the last two weeks. Health officials said a thirty year old woman got sick on April second. She was taken to a hospital seven days later. She was the twenty-second person to die from the virus in Egypt.
Health officials destroy birds on a farm in Muan, South Korea, to fight the spread of bird flu
South Korea this month reported new outbreaks in birds.
And the United States health secretary urged Indonesia to cooperate more with the World Health Organization to share virus samples. Mike Leavitt spoke 5 Monday in Jakarta. He noted 6 that many life-saving vaccines 7 have resulted from international cooperation.
Indonesia has had the most deaths of any country from H5N1, more than one hundred people. But it wants the right to approve any drug company's use of virus samples from Indonesia. Indonesia also wants guarantees that poor countries would be able to get low-cost vaccines developed from their samples.
And that’s the VOA Special English Health Report, written by Caty Weaver 8. I’m Faith Lapidus.
- It's very difficult to treat genetic diseases.遗传性疾病治疗起来很困难。
- Each daughter cell can receive a full complement of the genetic information.每个子细胞可以收到遗传信息的一个完全补偿物。
- The probability that it will rain today is high.今天下雨的可能性很大。
- He must calculate the probability of failure.他必须计算一下失败的概率。
- 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。
- Drivers must be on the alert for traffic signals.驾驶员必须密切注意交通信号。
- The rabbIt'seems to be very alert all its life.兔子似乎一生都小心翼翼，十分警觉。
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
- The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
- Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
- 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。