By Jill Moss Broadcast: October 20, 2003 This is Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Development Report. An estimated one-hundred-thirty-five million people have low vision. Forty to forty-five

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After getting a massive infection, it looked like that Franklin Lloyd would lose his right leg. Aggressive antibiotic treatments just werent working and the infection kept spreading wider and deeper. The 67-year-old kidney transplant recipient has a

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The federal government set up a network last year to identify deadly germs called nightmare bacteria. Today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that network is helping control these germs. And the CDC says the sys

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When patients show up in the hospital with a respiratory illness, they are usually given an antibiotic which do not work against viral infections. Even though most of these respiratroy infections are viral, it is estimated that in these cases antibio

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary scavenger: one that searches for or feeds on discarded or dead matter carcass: dead body of an animal take for granted: to not appreciate someone or something antibiotic: a type of drug that kills off tiny, harmful organisms

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Gretchen Cuda Kroen. Got a minute? Nasty bacteria cling to the surfaces of countertops. They also stick to medical devices - like catheters - that are placed inside the human body, where they can bec

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 18 September 2006 U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on the U.N. Human Rights Council to focus as much attention on the tragic situation in Sudan's conflict-ridden province of Darfur as it has on the crises in the Mi

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Pills Offer New Hope in Fight Against Yaws Scientists have found that a medicine taken in pill form is just as effective in treating the neglected tropical disease yaws as the usual treatment, a shot of penicillin. The easier-to-use therapy raises ne

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New UNICEF Campaign Targets Pneumonia, Diarrhea Global campaign Prompt and effective antibiotic treatment saved a child suffering from acute pneumonia. Not everyone is so lucky. In many poor regions of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, pneumonia and

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Frogs secrete compounds that could be used to battle MRSA and a new emerging bacterium that affects many wounded soldiers in Iraq. According to Mideast researchers, the amphibians could provide several new antibiotic compounds to fight drug resistant

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Does Ebola Reveal WHO Shortfalls? 埃博拉疫情反映出世卫组织应变不足? As the Ebola outbreak rages in three West African countries and raises fears abroad some are questioning whether the World Health Organization is being stretched too

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Industrial Livestock Farms Linked to Staph As economies grow in developing countries, more of them are adopting a Western-style diet. That means eating a lot more meat. As a result, the number of industrial or factory livestock farms has increased. B

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Antibiotic Resistance Requires Fast Actions 抗生素耐药问题性亟待迅速行动 The World Health Organization issued a wake-up call April 30 when it reported that we have now entered a post-antibiotic period. What this means is that some commo

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Louise Slaughter Was Congress's Food Safety Champion Legislation to restrict the current overuse, I would say abuse, of antibiotics by farmers who raise livestock for human consumption.Louise Slaughter, member of Congress from upstate New York, in 20

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Bacteria Can Be Resistant to Brand-New Antibiotics 谁在对抗最新的抗生素 Perhaps the chief poster child of antibiotic resistance is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. The bacterium is impervious to a suite of antibiotics,

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By Melinda Smith Washington, DC 04 January 2007 watch Meningitis in Children Meningitis can be infectious, particularly when the disease is spread among large groups of people living in crowded conditions. It is most prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa,

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Non-Stick Surface On Med Devices Could Keep Bacteria At Bay 医药设备的不黏涂层可抑制细菌生长 In lab tests, catheters coated with a non-stick surface harbored far fewer Staph bacteria than conventional devices. Gretchen Cuda Kroen repo

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 05 January 2008 A new study sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows children with severe pneumonia can be effectively treated at home and do not need to be hospitalized. The World Health Organization calls this f

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By David McAlary Washington 07 June 2006 Children collect water in Luanda, Angola Researchers in Bangladesh have tested a drug that cures cholera in most patients, showing that it is a useful new weap

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Insects Donate DNA to Unrelated Bugs 昆虫捐献DNA给无关的虫类 You can thank your parents for your DNA. Because humans share genes through sexual reproduction, passing DNA from parent to child. It's known as the 'vertical transfer' of DNA. No

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