Health workers say an experimental vaccine may help to stop the spread of Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The vaccine is called V920. The drug maker Merck has shipped about 8,600 doses of V920 to the northeastern DRC. The Wor

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(五)月

By David McAlary Researchers have shown that it may be possible to prevent sexual transmission of the AIDS virus HIV with a compound now in the experimental stage. Female monkeys who received it vagin

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: File photo of embryonic stem cells in a laboratory dish And I'm Pat Bodnar. This week, we will tell about efforts to make what appear to be embryonic stem cel

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AS IT IS 2015-06-10 Seventh Person Dies of MERS in South Korea 韩国MERS疫情造成第七人死亡 The South Korean Health Ministry has reported the death of a seventh person from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, also known as MERS. Health ministr

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Mucus: Your Friend Against Bacteria 粘液助你对抗细菌 When you are sick with a cold or the flu, you may have a runny nose. Why is it called a runny nose? Because of the mucus flowing and dripping from your nose. Yucky! But, guess what? Mucus i

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As Olympics Near, Brazil's President Faces Senate Trial 奥运会临近但巴西总统面临参议院弹劾 From VOA Learning English, this is In The News. Brazil is preparing to host the Olympic Games in August, but the South American nation may not

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Scientists Could be Closer to AIDS Cure 科学家即将研发出治愈艾滋病的方法 Since the start of the deadly AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, scientists have been working towards a cure. Now, they may be close to finding one. 自从上世纪90年代

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New Drugs Promise Higher Cure Rates for Hepatitis C The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved two new drugs - boceprevir and telaprevir - to treat hepatitis C, a virus that can cause liver damage and cancer. The new drugs are expected to imp

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场景特点:关于学生看病和医院相关的场景。 常见套路: (1)常见病症的词汇 (2)常见治疗手段的词汇 (3)治病的常见句型总结 场景词汇: Diagnose, patients illness, painful, technological advance

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Richard Kinnell wasnt frightened when he first saw the picture at the yard sale in Rosewood. He was fascinated by it, and he felt hed had the good luck to find something which might be very special, but fright? No. It didnt occur to him until later (

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Breathing hard, not quite panting, Kinnell hurried back into the entryway. The picture was still there, but it had changed once more. Now it showed two glaring white circlesheadlightswith the dark shape of the car hulking behind them. Hes on the move

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中国新增四人感染H7N9病毒 HANGZHOU, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- China reported four more human H7N9 virus infections on Tuesday, including one death. A 70-year-old man in east China's Zhejiang Province was confirmed on Tuesday to have contracted the

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WASHINGTON, May 17 (Xinhua) -- A third case of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus infection has been found in the United States, the country's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Saturday. The patient is an Ill

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Mauritius(毛里求斯) has recorded the first victim who succumbed to A/ H1N1 flu in 2010, local medical sources reported over the weekend. A government official aged 51 died on Saturday night in a private clinic after having been admitted on Ju

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They'll love you or they'll hate you. Does not matter. 'Cause either way, when you're out there, you're on your own. 语音讲解 单词发音 matter n.物质;事件 either adj.两者之中任一的;两者之中每一的 not adv.表示否定,不

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提起蚊子的天敌,我们第一时间想到的是蚊香,但是现在科学家有了更好的办法:以蚊攻蚊,让带有基因缺陷的转基因蚊子去对付它的自然同伴,最后让蚊虫家族自行灭绝。这种转基因雄性蚊

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From time to time certain strains of virus return. 有几种病毒不时重复出现。 A disagreeable Russian virus known as H1N1 caused severe outbreaks over wide areas in 1933, then again in the 1950s, and yet again in the 1970s. 一种名叫H1N1的

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CARACAS, March 30 (Xinhua) -- The number of confirmed cases of the A/H1N1 influenza in Venezuela has risen to 482 this year, Health Minister Eugenia Sader said on Wednesday. According to the latest report, the state of Merida in southeastern Venezuel

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Cameron: This is first-child syndrome. It's where the first child is happy, and then the second child comes along, and the first child gets jealous of the second child and starts acting out. Mitchell: Yes, that's brilliant, except Sal's not our chil

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In 1859, an unassuming Australian landowner named Thomas Austin got the hunting bug. Eager for something to shoot, he released twenty-four wild rabbits onto his property and had a jolly time tracking them down. Unfortunately, some of the rabbits mana

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