时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:2007年VOA标准英语(九月)


英语课
By Chad Bouchard
Jakarta
11 September 2007

International health officials want to know what Indonesia is doing to stop the spread of avian influenza 1, which has claimed 85 human lives there and shows little sign of slowing. As Chad Bouchard reports for VOA from Jakarta, Indonesian officials are defending their efforts.


Officials from the United Nations' Avian and Human Influenza program are in Bali for a two-day meeting with the Indonesian government. They are assessing ways to improve the country's programs to prevent bird flu from spreading.






An Indonesian volunteer sprays disinfectant inside a chicken cage in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, 27 Aug 2007


An Indonesian volunteer sprays disinfectant inside a chicken cage in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, 27 Aug 2007



Indonesia's head of the National Bird Flu Committee, Bayu Krisnamurthi, says officials have are getting better at quickly detecting human outbreaks of the virus.


"We already tripled the units for surveillance in Indonesia, so the components 2 of surveillance is becoming more and more complete," said Bayu. "It's not yet perfect for all of Indonesia, but at least we made some progress."


Avian influenza is endemic in birds globally. The most worrisome strain of the bird flu is the H5N1 virus, which has caused the greatest number of human cases and fatalities 3 since the most recent outbreak began in Asia in 2003. More than 50 percent of people who have gotten sick with this type of bird flu have died.


Most human infections come from contact with sick fowl 4 or their feces. In Indonesia there is greater worry of transmission to humans who live in close proximity 5 to millions of backyard chickens.


Scientists fear that it is just a matter of time before the virus mutates into a form easily transmissible between humans.


On Monday, the World Health Organization warned a flu pandemic was inevitable 6, and cautioned against complacency among public health and disaster preparedness officials world wide.


The group in Bali is expected to establish a new set of guidelines for Indonesia on Wednesday.




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。
(机器、设备等的)构成要素,零件,成分; 成分( component的名词复数 ); [物理化学]组分; [数学]分量; (混合物的)组成部分
  • the components of a machine 机器部件
  • Our chemistry teacher often reduces a compound to its components in lab. 在实验室中化学老师常把化合物分解为各种成分。
n.恶性事故( fatality的名词复数 );死亡;致命性;命运
  • Several people were injured, but there were no fatalities. 有几个人受伤,但没有人死亡。
  • The accident resulted in fatalities. 那宗意外道致多人死亡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.家禽,鸡,禽肉
  • Fowl is not part of a traditional brunch.禽肉不是传统的早午餐的一部分。
  • Since my heart attack,I've eaten more fish and fowl and less red meat.自从我患了心脏病后,我就多吃鱼肉和禽肉,少吃红色肉类。
n.接近,邻近
  • Marriages in proximity of blood are forbidden by the law.法律规定禁止近亲结婚。
  • Their house is in close proximity to ours.他们的房子很接近我们的。
adj.不可避免的,必然发生的
  • Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
  • The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。
学英语单词
Achillean
air pressure regulator valve
ask for a ruling
atonements
belay
big-businesses
bigram
botolph
brined meat
camera control operator
cathode half bridge
Centranthera tonkinensis
certificate of audit(or)
charing machine
Chorvoq
class-struggle
collision drill
coverboys
coveys
deliquity
drop-in commercial
drum-like
dry risers
Eastern Western
Egyptian grass
emulsio olei jecoris plscis
ensealing
evrythin
extraneous evidence
exudative lobular tuberculosis
family Ginkgoaceae
floating warranty
fried sliced pork
gamma activation analysis
gargulun
greenweed
gutenbergs
helium 3B phase
icaroscope
idiochord
incompatibility problem
infantile spinal muscular atrophy
inhibiting pulse
Jehovah-tsidkenu
kavans
knocks it off
ku niao su
landscape genetics
leichman
lime glass
longitudinal magnetic field probe
macro-function
master of the house
Mauritius
miniplant
Mitmachen
monitrice
mosswood
native XML database
non-uniform shock wave
on the down grade
out migrant
pelletierine sulfate
perseveraunt
post-coordinate
preselections
prochlorophytes
quavering
raising by dewatering with compressed air
ratless
respiratory enzymes
reverberation absorption coefficient
Rubrobacteraceae
ruling and balancing accounts
ruyschiana
sanitary pads
Sayatón
season duck
secondary industrial sectors
semiiterative
shareable routine
Siabu
siliceous wood
snoopily
software licensing
spastic unilateral paralysis
Stegnogramma
stomach types
superscribing
t-tube
tactic pattern
temporalls
tetraconate
thomas hopkins gallaudets
triacontahexaene
trichilemmal
Vallisneria denseserrulata
wastewater dilution
Wild-Barfield furnace
yard-wand
yeast contaminant