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英语课
By Phil Mercer
Sydney
18 May 2007

A team of Australian malaria 1 experts has been meeting in Canberra to find the most efficient ways to combat the disease in the South Pacific. Canberra has just announced a new multi-million dollar aid package to help efforts in the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea. From Sydney, Phil Mercer reports.






Malaria is spread by mosquitoes


Malaria is spread by mosquitoes



The Solomon Islands has the highest incidence of malaria in the South Pacific followed by Vanuatu. And the disease is one of the leading causes of death in Papua New Guinea.


Australia is increasing its anti-malaria aid in the region - trying to reduce the rate of infections.


The money will be used to train medical staff, provide testing kits 2 and fund education campaigns.


The new Malaria Reference Group is meeting for the first time in Canberra. The job of this panel of experts is to make sure that Australian aid is spent wisely on tackling the disease.


The group's chairman, Sir Richard Feachem, says much work still needs to be done in the South Pacific.


"Both in terms of child death, child sickness which keeps children away from schools, of course, and has an economic consequence, and also sickness in adults, which reduces productivity, and the deterrent 3 effect on investment and the tourist trade, which is important obviously for Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands - if we add all these things together we would have to conclude that malaria should be right up at the top of the list of priorities for these countries," said Feachem.


Some scientists here believe that a "reasonably good" malaria vaccine 4 is just a few years away. They're pinning their hopes on a drug based on a Chinese herb.


It is derived 5 from a common plant called sweet wormwood, which the Chinese have long used to treat fevers. The drug has been tested in parts of Indonesia, India, Bangladesh and Burma.


Every year, between 350 and 500 million people around the world are infected with malaria, which is transmitted by mosquitoes. More than one million die from the disease. In addition to the South Pacific islands, some of the worst hit nations are in Africa and South Asia.




n.疟疾
  • 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。
衣物和装备( kit的名词复数 ); 成套用品; 配套元件
  • Keep your kits closed and locked when not in use. 不用的话把你的装备都锁好放好。
  • Gifts Articles, Toy and Games, Wooden Toys, Puzzles, Craft Kits. 采购产品礼品,玩具和游戏,木制的玩具,智力玩具,手艺装备。
n.阻碍物,制止物;adj.威慑的,遏制的
  • Large fines act as a deterrent to motorists.高额罚款是对开车的人的制约。
  • I put a net over my strawberries as a deterrent to the birds.我在草莓上罩了网,免得鸟歇上去。
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。
vi.起源;由来;衍生;导出v.得到( derive的过去式和过去分词 );(从…中)得到获得;源于;(从…中)提取
  • Many English words are derived from Latin and Greek. 英语很多词源出于拉丁文和希腊文。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He derived his enthusiasm for literature from his father. 他对文学的爱好是受他父亲的影响。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
acute alcoholic intoxication
atomic target acquisition
aural deformity
automated high rise storage systems
autonomic cell
basilling
battles of trafalgar
boron dilution
bouteloua graciliss
cachinnating
channel request low priority
chemotaxes
chile saltpeter (soda niter)
chlamys lentiginosa
cinnamon stones
commercial and industrial circles
concrete incorporation plant
developable surface of class n
direct-current transducer
Dja River
dr-shift
eighty-five
El Pocito
elatrate
erotics
exbond
fixed anode
fli-top can
fore tackle pendant
free bearing
gaze out of
give the last hand to
green development
gyroscopic error
halogen tube
impervious material
iorek
iron-mould
ischemic necrosis of femoral head of adult
Issaouane, Erg
Laingholm
leafed through
left end marker
link run-time subprogram
luminosity classes
lunatizing
MDD (magnetic-domain device)
myriadyne
nail culture
name of manufacturer
Nanae
neccc
nitrided iron
no-hoisting drill bit
ottoman rib
overrunning
packed bed heat transfer
parenchymatous mastitis
pessimizing
pet dog
piston-packing
play to the crowd
porosity level
praying mantids
print on demand
Profundi
proteolytic ferment
radium-E
ratio gears
recut tire
resupinating
retardation of solar on side real time
rice huller screen
Rosaceae
Rājkand
sabellid
salicine
school practice
sealing-wax
second species
segmental papillae
seniorest
share
Sibbaldia omeiensis
slackens
spinal canal
stable elimination technique
standbiest
subtranient
superfluid
t'mills
terms of redemption
tetrachloroethanes
tigernuts
to fake
towel rail
transcendence degree
Vincent's disease
Voil, Loch
West India molasses
zoogloeal