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英语课

By Ricci Shryock
Dakar
12 November 2009


Red Cross officials say an outbreak of dengue fever in Cape 1 Verde is the worst ever in West Africa.


 
Hospitals in Cape Verde are running out of room for their patients this week, says the Red Cross' West and Central Africa Health Coordinator 2 Anders Naucler, as the country deals with the biggest dengue fever epidemic 3 it has ever seen.


"The national hospital here is overcrowded, yes, by patients, and they have raised a tent outside to make a triage of the patients, so some patients can be sent home, and some patients have to be observed so to look for hemorrhagic fever," Naucler said.


Cape Verde first reported cases of dengue fever in September and the epidemic has spread to more than 13,700 cases, say Red Cross officials.


Dengue fever, which is spread by mosquitoes, displays symptoms similar to malaria 4. The patient may experience headache, fever, fatigue 5 and severe muscle pain.


Naucler adds the danger is when patients acquire the potentially fatal dengue hemorrhagic fever.


"The dangers of dengue are serious," Naucler said. "If you get hemorrhage syndromes 7, and then you can, it can lead that you get into hemorrhagic shock syndrome 6, where you get hypertension and all these things. It is really a disease that you have to observe all the time when you are sick."


Naucler says area hospitals are clinically managing the outbreak well, but the importance lies is future prevention tactics.


"They have gone out for campaigns already and to cleaning up compounds with stagnated 8 water and garbage and things like that, but this is things that everybody, the mentality 9 has to be inside of everyone in here, they have to take care of their garbage, things like that," Naucler said.


Six people have reportedly died from the outbreak. Senegal also confirmed the existence of 19 cases of dengue fever this week. 



n.海角,岬;披肩,短披风
  • I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望到好望角去旅行。
  • She was wearing a cape over her dress.她在外套上披着一件披肩。
n.协调人
  • The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, headed by the Emergency Relief Coordinator, coordinates all UN emergency relief. 联合国人道主义事务协调厅在紧急救济协调员领导下,负责协调联合国的所有紧急救济工作。
  • How am I supposed to find the client-relations coordinator? 我怎么才能找到客户关系协调员的办公室?
n.流行病;盛行;adj.流行性的,流传极广的
  • 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。
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。
n.疲劳,劳累
  • The old lady can't bear the fatigue of a long journey.这位老妇人不能忍受长途旅行的疲劳。
  • I have got over my weakness and fatigue.我已从虚弱和疲劳中恢复过来了。
n.综合病症;并存特性
  • 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。
n.综合征( syndrome的名词复数 );(某种条件下有共同特征的)一系列表现(事件、举动等)
  • Other agents can cause similar syndromes. 其它病原也可引起相似的综合症。 来自辞典例句
  • They have pointed out the similarities of the sprue syndromes in man and TGE. 他们强调了人的鹅口疮综合症和TGE的共同点。 来自辞典例句
v.停滞,不流动,不发展( stagnate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The balloting had stagnated, he couldn't win. 投票工作陷于停顿,他不能得胜。 来自辞典例句
  • His mind has stagnated since his retirement. 他退休后头脑迟钝了。 来自辞典例句
n.心理,思想,脑力
  • He has many years'experience of the criminal mentality.他研究犯罪心理有多年经验。
  • Running a business requires a very different mentality from being a salaried employee.经营企业所要求具备的心态和上班族的心态截然不同。
学英语单词
age of hardening
almgren
antici
article-by-article bargaining
astrophysics newsgroup
asymmetrical deflection
automatic measurement technology
automatic navigation control equipment
axs
back-up belt
baxter model
beck depression inventory (bdi)
bituminous shale
bronchiorrhagia
brushlands
bushing terminal
Cadbury Schweppes
catenary action
Cephalantheropsis halconensis
class polychaetas
common initial cell
congenital methemoglobinemia
Convention on Contracts for the International Sales of Goods
coordinate of motion
Crotilin
deallocation associated with return
deques
disorganic
distributed sensing
earnings growth
eloining
Erkowit
eternal sins
farfet
flow-deviation angle
gas-side corrosion
general fluid mechanics
gospels of luke
halpern
heal-alls
Heberden's polyarthrosis deformans
high-attention
horn trumpet
human welfare
inversion set
leucaena leaf mal
linear stability
lionizing
make one's abode
marie-helene
master oscillator (mo)
mechanical behaviour of materials
metal shield
multiplexing fiber-optic sensor
noise-reducing
operator precedence
ottava
Parnassia omeiensis
perfluoroethylene-propylene
periosteophytes
permeable strata
phase-angle response
pie filling
pointer barometer
polyunguia
pomacentruss
prestressed-concrete pile
public contribution
put on an air of injured innocence
quick-change gear lathe
retail cooperative
rhomboideum
sample sifter
Sappey's veins
Sarapul
slurs
sociodemographic statistical system
softening-ups
sparking test
straining beams
subscription of shares
task's message receiver routine
teetotums
template synthesis
ten-thirty
territorial air
thermoluminescence analysis
thrust-augmented rocket
Torrens, L.
torsion deformation
towing and salving clause
trappose
Trinitarianism
unit disc
Ust'yevoye
varat
vitreous silver
water-proof mortar
wear the pant
winter-weight
yokich
zymogen granule