VOA标准英语2009年-H1N1 Virus Goes Global
时间：2019-02-12 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2009年(十一月)
By Laurel Bowman
Washington
04 November 2009
People everywhere are trying to protect themselves against the swine flu
From Europe to Asia to the Middle East, the 2009 H1N1 virus is spreading. The World Health Organization reports the virus has killed close to 6,000 people worldwide.
"I come home from the street, take the mask off, wash and iron it and make my children do so too," she said.
Hundreds of thousands of doses of Tamiflu, a treatment for H1N1 flu, have arrived in the Ukraine, which has reported a sudden outbreak, killing 1 at least 22.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko met the plane on the tarmac.
"A large number of the most needed medicines to treat those people who have caught flu have been delivered today," said Yulia Tymoshenko. "It is Tamiflu. I have it in my hands…"
Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko
The government has closed schools, limited public gatherings 2 and imposed travel restrictions 3 with enforcement at the borders.
Health experts in Germany are also reporting an alarming rise in H1N1 cases. Most worrisome, many aren't travel-related but are developing inside the country.
German health officials are worried.
"If you want, you can say the wave has begun," said an official.
Health officials say that here in the U.S. an estimated 1,000 people have died from the H1N1 virus with roughly one million infected. Most of those cases have been tracked since September, the onset 4 of the flu season here.
In China, because of slow global distribution of the vaccine 5, the government has produced its own. And it has launched a massive vaccination 6 campaign. So have 16 other countries, including Japan and Israel.
In Afghanistan, many residents blame foreigners traveling to their country for at least two confirmed H1N1 deaths.
Health officials declared a state of emergency following those deaths.
Some Afghans blame foreigners traveling to their country for at least two confirmed H1N1 deaths
"Whoever comes from abroad should be checked before entry, if they are well, they should be able to enter if not they should be deported," said an Afghan man.
Deporting 7 sick travelers might not do the trick, says microbiologist Dr. Andrew Pekosz, since people can carry and pass H1N1 for up to a day before developing symptoms.
His advice to those with access to the vaccine: Get it now.
"The vaccine is safe when administered to a number of different populations and it also induces a very good immune response which should protect you from infection," said Andrew Pekosz.
He repeats that the best protection against catching 8 and spreading H1N1 is good hygiene 9. Use a tissue or cover your mouth.
Health officials say to date more than 440,000 people around the world have been infected with H1N1. They say before the pandemic ends, 30 percent of the world's population may have been infected.
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
- His conduct at social gatherings created a lot of comment. 他在社交聚会上的表现引起许多闲话。
- During one of these gatherings a pupil caught stealing. 有一次，其中一名弟子偷窃被抓住。
- I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
- a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制
- The drug must be taken from the onset of the infection.这种药必须在感染的最初期就开始服用。
- Our troops withstood the onset of the enemy.我们的部队抵挡住了敌人的进攻。
- 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。
- Vaccination is a preventive against smallpox.种痘是预防天花的方法。
- Doctors suggest getting a tetanus vaccination every ten years.医生建议每十年注射一次破伤风疫苗。
- There are those who think eczema is catching.有人就是认为湿疹会传染。
- Enthusiasm is very catching.热情非常富有感染力。