World Action Needed to Prevent Widespread Antibiotic Resistance Since the discovery of penicillin in 1928, we have used antibiotics against a host of infections. But now, doctors are finding that more and more bacteria are resistant to even the stron

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2015年(十二月)

A Laboratory Turns Deadly Insect Venom into Medicine 实验室将致命毒虫液转换为药物 To most of us, medicine comes from a drugstore. But originally, much of the medicine developed in the last century came from natural sources: plants, bact

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Unit 5 Part B Text 1 Ashley Ashley was reading a magazine when she came across an article about antibiotics and other drugs discovered in European rivers and tap water. If such drugs were present there, she reasoned, they might also be found near her

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 全新版大学英语听说教程第三册

Lesson 53 Television Day: Penicillin TV Commentary: If you leave a piece of bread in a warm damp place, mould will soon grow in it. When this happens, we say that bread has gone mouldy. Mould can grow on all kinds of things besides food-on leather, c

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BBC news with Marion Marshall. Fire fighters in Guatemala say at least 19 children have died in a blaze at a government-run childrens home southeast of the capital Guatemala City. Many others were injured. Its not yet clear what caused the fire but o

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Pack rat. The name is synonymous with hoarding. And researchers have learned that pack rats can actually increase the range of foods theyre able to eat because of their collection of gut bacteria. Pack rats live in the American Southwest, where they

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(36) / 评论(0) 分类 2014年Scientific American(七)月

Doctor Evans:Good afternoon, Chloe, Im Doctor Evans.What seems to be the problem? Chloe: Hi, Dr Evans. Thanks for seeing me on such short notice. When I woke up this morning I had a really sore throat and a really bad cough. I think I am coming dow

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. If using your voice is difficult, then you know what dysphonia is. The more common name for this disorder is hoarseness. Experts say about one in three people will become hoarse at some point in their l

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AS IT IS 2014-01-06 More Diseases Now Spreading from Animals to Humans 越来越多的动物疾病传播给人类 Hello, and welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English. Im Christopher Cruise in Washington. Today on the program, we report on effort

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Health Report - Child Vaccine Efforts Get Big Boost This is the VOA Special English Health Report. International donors have promised more than four billion dollars to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization. That group, known as the GAVI A

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Agriculture Report - When Animals Make People Sick This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Researchers estimate that more than two billion people a year get diseases spread by animals. More than two million of them die. Delia Grace is a v

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Study: Use of Antibiotics in Farm Animals Expected to Grow 研究发现使用抗生素有助农场提高动物密度 A new study has found the amount of antibiotics given to farm animals is expected to increase by two-thirds over the next 15 years. R

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Microbe Could Help Battle Malaria Researchers have discovered a bacterium in the gut of the Anopheles mosquito which may someday be used to destroy and, therefore, prevent the spread of the disease-causing parasite. The World Health Organization esti

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A leading U.S. government health agency is focusing an annual campaign on educating patients, parents, and health care providers about the need to avoid the misuse of antibiotics. Inappropriate use of antibiotics can lead to superbugs that resist dru

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脓毒症治疗新方法 Sepsis can be triggered by pneumonia, surgery, even childbirth. Symptoms include fever, increased breathing, and confusion. The bodys defense system goes out of control, causing widespread inflammation, organ failure and sept

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患者、医生与科研人员需迅速应对细菌抗药性 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 common bacterial infections no

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This is scientific american 60 second science. Im Chris Daliata. Got a minute? The pain relieving effects of drugs like ibuprofen are well known. But ibuprofen and its relatives, known as nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs, may someday have another u

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HEALTH REPORT - India, Nepal Fight Outbreak of Japanese Encephalitis By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 I'm Jim Tedder with the VOA Special English Health Report. A young victim

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Today, a fever is an uncomfortable nuisance, but a hundred-plus years ago, fevers were often fatal. The difference between then and now is the class of drugs known as antibiotics. As the name implies, anti-biotics work against life, or, more specific

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A Pain in the Ear 耳痛是一种常见病,耳痛为常见症状,常因耳部疾病引起(原发性或耳源性耳痛),也可因耳部邻近器官或其他器官疾病所致(继发性或反射性耳痛)。耳痛的严重程度与病变的

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