时间:2019-01-27 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(二月)


英语课

By Gilbert Da Costa
Abidjan
14 February 2006

Reports that the bird flu virus is spreading in Nigeria is putting tremendous pressure on poultry 1 farmers in the West African country.


Birds for sale on Lagos street   
  
These are very difficult times for poultry farmers in Nigeria. A visit to a poultry farm outside Abuja Tuesday revealed most farmers are taking the outbreak of bird flu very seriously.
 
A big black iron gate at the entrance of this farm was closed and virtually no one was being allowed in.

Farm workers wore  thick, red gloves for protection against contamination.
 
Farm Manager Yusuf Mohammed talks about other measures to prevent the spread of the bird flu virus among the 20,000 chickens at the farm.
 
"Apart from wearing gloves, rainboots and face masks, the first one is that we don't allow anybody access to the farm, and even I myself whenever I come in, I [...] disinfect myself," Yusuf said. "And for our eggs,when we took eggs outside, on bringing back the empty crates 3, we [...] spray on them before so that there won't be any problem and if it happens that one of our customers bring in his own empty crate 2, we keep it outside or disinfect it before bringing it in into the farm. And whenever we notice that there is any of our birds that is looking sick, we [...] take it outside, that is, isolate 4 it."
 
Chicken has always been a major meat source in Nigeria but sales have crashed  in the wake of the deadly bird flu attack.
 
Agriculture Minister Adamu Bello says consumers could still enjoy their chicken if well prepared.


A boy holds a chicken in Birnin Yaro, a small village behind Sambawa farms, where Nigeria's first bird flu case was reported near Kaduna  
  
"Chicken which is well cooked doesn't transmit avian influenza 5, once it is cooked. I urge people to cook their food properly. Any chicken you get now, even if its healthy chicken, please cook it well," he said.
 
The Nigerian authorities say they are investigating reports that the bird flu virus may have spread to five more states including the capital Abuja.
 
Analysts say this suggest that the authorities are yet to have a firm grip on the spread of the virus.
 
Some experts say Nigeria, which reported Africa's first cases of the disease in birds, may not have done enough to stop the spread of the disease which has killed more than 90  people since 2003, mostly in Asia. 



n.家禽,禽肉
  • There is not much poultry in the shops. 商店里禽肉不太多。
  • What do you feed the poultry on? 你们用什么饲料喂养家禽?
vt.(up)把…装入箱中;n.板条箱,装货箱
  • We broke open the crate with a blow from the chopper.我们用斧头一敲就打开了板条箱。
  • The workers tightly packed the goods in the crate.工人们把货物严紧地包装在箱子里。
vt.使孤立,隔离
  • Do not isolate yourself from others.不要把自己孤立起来。
  • We should never isolate ourselves from the masses.我们永远不能脱离群众。
n.流行性感冒,流感
  • They took steps to prevent the spread of influenza.他们采取措施
  • Influenza is an infectious disease.流感是一种传染病。
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absorption bases
adjoint technique
admin-istratively
Adonic line
ADSP
allylborane
Aosta
apot(annulus pressure operated tester)
Apply Image
arterious
attributive noun
beef bladder worm
blind plate
circulus callosus Halleri
cloacal gland
coddingham
combinatorial power mean
completed units method
Conesus Lake
conventional sharpening
Corbadrin
country-type
covalent extension
cupro lead
De Morgan's spots
deck expansion installation
deviation from standard
dharan bazar
dibuprol
disquisitors
doegling oil
egyptian water lilies
endamageable
equivalent automation
esotrope
ETTN
Euclid's algorithm
familial amyloidosis
floor trap
frontal margin
ganking
genus Streptosolen
glassy diabase
Guanipa, R.
heliocentricity
herbaceous layer
hierarchical clustering analysis
high-level language architecture
icy wind
image curve
imidoxanthin
irreversible tectonic deformation
kiaki
layer of nuburnt gas
linear tensor
longitudinal loading gear
mallee bird
metrocentres
microinjects
modification process
moquettle carpet
naval port pollution control
Niementowski quinoline synthesis
nighs
Norstad, Lauris
operationalizable
organoboration
paction
Parke
phase modulated
plasma therapeutics
practical system of units
prebbles
promiscual
proportionating
radio parts
Reduviidae
ribavrin
rivet punch
scrap process
Secretary of Interior
sew to
shuttle accessories
Sir Barton
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spaceborne system
spot spoilage
suburbanizations
sun disc
superpower system
target scaled model
tensor tympani
theoretical economics
three-judge district court
tip brazing
tunnel floor heave
tzipora
unexplainedly
unprofit
ventilation car
wildcard certificate
zygomatic bones