2006年VOA标准英语-Health Authorities Warn Americans Not to Eat Co
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By Carol Pearson
Washington, DC
20 September 2006
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US health organizations are asking public to avoid eating fresh spinach 1
U.S. health officials are still trying to pinpoint 2 the source of an E. coli outbreak that has caused at least one death and sickened scores of others across the country.
U.S. health officials normally tell Americans to eat more leafy green vegetables. Now, they are being warned to stay away from fresh spinach. The reason: at least some spinach grown in California and shipped around the country has been tainted 3 with a particularly virulent 4 strain of E.coli bacteria.
Gwyn Wellborn
Gwyn Wellborn spent 13 days in the hospital after eating a spinach salad. "I was scared,” she says. “They weren't sure if I'd make it another couple hours or another day."
Wellborn is 27 years old, but an elderly woman in the Midwestern state of Wisconsin died from E.coli. Wisconsin Health Commissioner 5 Bevan Baker 6 said, "The elderly and the very young are those we are concerned about."
Lab testing for E.coli O157:H7
That's because this particular strain, E.coli O157:H7, is particularly virulent. It can cause bloody 7 diarrhea, severe abdominal 8 cramps 9 and hemolytic uremic syndrome 10. That's a disease that causes kidney failure. In young children, most cases of hemolyic uremic syndrome are caused by this particular strain of E. coli. And those infected can pass it on to others.
Dr. Roger Clemens from the University of Southern California School of Pharmacy 11 says,
"Most organisms such as E.coli you have to consume large quantities to make you sick, what sets this apart is you only have to consume small quantities to make you sick."
Caroline Smith DeWaal
E.coli is found in the intestines 12 of healthy animals. Caroline Smith DeWaal with the Center for Science in the Public Interest explains. "The bacteria lives in the guts 13 of cows and other bovine 14 and it would get on to the fresh spinach through manure 15, through contaminated irrigation water."
And it could have contaminated the spinach through other means. Dr. Robert Brackett and others at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are trying to pinpoint where the contamination started and how it spread.
Dr. Robert Brackett
"It could be contaminated water, it could be wildlife, it could be the workers. When you get to the plant it could again be workers in the plant."
The spinach is chopped and washed and mixed together, then shipped throughout the United States. Health officials are telling Americans, for the time being, not to eat raw spinach and to practice good hygiene 16 with plenty of handwashing.
- Eating spinach is supposed to make you strong.据说吃菠菜能使人强壮。
- You should eat such vegetables as carrot,celery and spinach.你应该吃胡萝卜、芹菜和菠菜这类的蔬菜。
- It is difficult to pinpoint when water problems of the modern age began.很难准确地指出，现代用水的问题是什么时候出现的。
- I could pinpoint his precise location on a map.我能在地图上指明他的准确位置。
- The administration was tainted with scandal. 丑闻使得政府声名狼藉。
- He was considered tainted by association with the corrupt regime. 他因与腐败政府有牵连而名誉受损。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- She is very virulent about her former employer.她对她过去的老板恨之入骨。
- I stood up for her despite the virulent criticism.尽管她遭到恶毒的批评，我还是维护她。
- The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
- He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。
- The baker bakes his bread in the bakery.面包师在面包房内烤面包。
- The baker frosted the cake with a mixture of sugar and whites of eggs.面包师在蛋糕上撒了一层白糖和蛋清的混合料。
- He got a bloody nose in the fight.他在打斗中被打得鼻子流血。
- He is a bloody fool.他是一个十足的笨蛋。
- The abdominal aorta is normally smaller than the thoracic aorta.腹主动脉一般比胸主动脉小。
- Abdominal tissues sometimes adhere after an operation.手术之后腹部有时会出现粘连。
- The Institute says that an unidentified virus is to blame for the syndrome. 该研究所表示,引起这种综合症的是一种尚未确认的病毒。
- Results indicated that 11 fetuses had Down syndrome. 结果表明有11个胎儿患有唐氏综合征。
- She works at the pharmacy.她在药房工作。
- Modern pharmacy has solved the problem of sleeplessness.现代制药学已经解决了失眠问题。
- Perhaps the most serious problems occur in the stomach and intestines. 最严重的问题或许出现在胃和肠里。 来自辞典例句
- The traps of carnivorous plants function a little like the stomachs and small intestines of animals. 食肉植物的捕蝇器起着动物的胃和小肠的作用。 来自辞典例句
- I'll only cook fish if the guts have been removed. 鱼若已收拾干净，我只需烧一下即可。
- Barbara hasn't got the guts to leave her mother. 巴巴拉没有勇气离开她妈妈。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He threw off his pack and went into the rush-grass andand munching,like some bovine creature.他丢开包袱，爬到灯心草丛里，像牛似的大咬大嚼起来。
- He was a gentle,rather bovine man.他是一位文雅而反应迟钝的人。
- The farmers were distributing manure over the field.农民们正在田间施肥。
- The farmers used manure to keep up the fertility of their land.农夫们用粪保持其土质的肥沃。