This is Scientific American 60-second Science,I'm Gretchen Cuda Kroen,got a minute?Sharing syringes is a big no-no.Despite the warnings,needles sharing among injection drug users are still a significant cause for the spread of HIV and other infectiou

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Laughter is what makes the world go round. If you cant laugh, life would be very boring and depressing. The sound of laughter is one of the most beautiful sounds in the world. Just hearing it makes me smile and want to laugh too. I have to find out w

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26 Renting an Apartment GLOSSARY apartment manager a person whose job is to take care of problems in an apartment building, collect the rent, and find peopleto live in the building * When our toilet stopped working, we called the apartment manager. v

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Idiom: No spine 没有勇气,胆小鬼 Hit the book: Adventurous Towering Penguin Infectious Immune system Isolation Pathogen Simultaneously For those who go, it's the trip of a lifetime and it wouldn't be complete without a selfie with penguins. B

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Laughter is what makes the world go round. If you cant laugh, life would be very boring and depressing. The sound of laughter is one of the most beautiful sounds in the world. Just hearing it makes me smile and want to laugh too. I have to find out w

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Former U.S. President George W. Bush declared April 25 as World Malaria Awareness Day in 2007. He asked the world to join the fight to wipe out malaria on the African continent. He said: We focus our attention on all who suffer from this terrible dis

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by Michael W. Flynn First, a disclaimer: Although I am an attorney, the legal information in this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for seeking personalized legal advice from an attorney licensed to practice in your jurisdiction. Further, I

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Swine flu spread 'not sustained ' 猪流感疫情继续传播 The number of confirmed cases (确诊病例) of swine flu in the UK has risen to 15. 英国猪流感确诊病例上升到 15 人。 The increase, from 13, comes as health chiefs await the results of more than 60

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT – April 1, 2002: Ebola in Africa By Jill Moss Ebola virus (Photo -cdc.gov) This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The World Health Organization reports fifty -four pe

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AS IT IS 2014-09-09 Ebola Vaccine Successful in Monkeys, Humans Next 埃博拉病毒疫苗在猴试获得成功 Researchers have developed an experimental vaccine that protects monkeys against the Ebola virus. They are now testing this vaccine on hum

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AGRICULTURE REPORT - Veterinary Medicine By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. When people feel sick, doctors treat th

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Less Fungus among Us Warm-Blooded A study in the Journal of Infectious Diseases finds that one major advantage of being warm-blooded is that the great majority of fungi cannot infect us. Karen Hopkin reports Some people eat to avoid being bored. Othe

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HEALTH REPORT - W.H.O. Seeks Worldwide Campaign Against Cancer By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Health Report. The World Health Organizat

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. For medical students, real experience begins not in a classroom but at a teaching hospital. These doctors in training are supervised. But sometimes accidents happen and the students get injured. For exam

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Chinas Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security says a total of 13.1 million new jobs have been created in urban areas in 2013, which hits all-time high. Unemployment in urban areas was at 4.1 percent in 2013. And was around 4.05 percent for t

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Tuesday's earthquake in Haiti left some 300,000 people homeless. Many are clustering in public places without food, clean water or sanitation. It's the perfect environment for the spread of communicable disease. The earthquake decimated Haiti's capit

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The U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt says the United States is helping China work to prevent the outbreak of infectious diseases following this week's massive earthquake. 美国卫生与公众服务部长莱维特说,美国正在

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Part 2. Hand Washing. Keywords. spread of viruses, public restrooms, infectious diseases, the correct method. Vocabulary. organism, cholera, hepatitis, infection. A. Before you listen to the material, discuss the following questions. 1. Do you often

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In 1969, a doctor at a Yale University lab in New Haven, Connecticut, who was studying Lassa fever came down with it. 1969年,设在康涅狄格州纽黑文的耶鲁大学实验室里的一名医生在研究拉沙热的过程中倒下了,然而他活

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Guinea Pigs: Useful in Research, Conversation Now, the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories. Each week, we explain where American English expressions come from and how to use them. Today, we turn once again to the animal world. We tal

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