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DAVID GREENE, HOST: I think we might call this next story CSI Diseases. At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there is a group of doctors. They call themselves the Epidemic Intelligence Service. They're basically disease detectives, and

美国国家公共电台 NPR Monsoon Rains Could Devastate Rohingya Camps

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The story of the Rohingya Muslims is complicated and gets more so every day. Evidence keeps emerging that Myanmar has used a campaign of terror to drive hundreds of thousands of Rohingya across the border into refugee camps in Bang

美国国家公共电台 NPR Unhappy Anniversary, South Sudan

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Six years ago this week, South Sudan became an independent state. The moment marked the end of decades of fighting between rebels in the predominantly Christian south and their northern Arab rivals in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Refugees Who Don't Want To Go Home ... Yet

DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. It seemed like an encouraging moment in one of the world's worst refugee crises. As we've been reporting for months, the Rohingya, a Muslim minority, were driven out of their home country Myanmar. The U.N. and the U.S.

美国国家公共电台 NPR Rare Disease Finds Fertile Ground In Rohingya Refugee Camps

Rare Disease Finds Fertile Ground In Rohingya Refugee Camps SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A diptheria outbreak is worsening in Bangladesh in what's rapidly become the largest refugee camp in the world. The camp is home to some of the hundreds of thousands of Ro

美国国家公共电台 NPR A 4-Minute Surgery That Can Give Sight To The Blind

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Now to Ethiopia where recently, hundreds of blind people arrived at a remote hospital. They were hoping for a miracle, the ability to see again. For a week, the hospital compound held a campaign to remove cataracts, the world's lea

美国国家公共电台 NPR Pork Tacos Topped With Fries: Fuel For Mexico's Diabetes Epidemic

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Global diabetes rates have been increasing dramatically over the past 20 years. In Mexico, 14 percent of adults now suffer from diabetes. It is, in fact, the leading cause of death there, and it's having a huge impact on Mexico's h

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Proposed New Tax, Mainly On Latinos, To Pay For Trump's Border Wall

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Let's follow up on one of President Trump's signature campaign proposals. When he was running, he said that if elected he would build a wall along the southern border of the United States and get Mexico to pay for it. New legisla

美国国家公共电台 NPR Puerto Rico's Efforts To Stop Zika Are Hampered By Mistrust

Puerto Rico's Efforts To Stop Zika Are Hampered By Mistrust STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Every time a week goes by, 1,500 more people are reported with Zika in Puerto Rico. That island now counts among the most badly affected parts of the hemisphere. Hundred

美国国家公共电台 NPR How Many Houses Did Hurricane Leave Standing In Port Salut, Haiti?

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Haiti's Storm Refugees Want To Know: What's The Plan?

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Stay-At-Home Dads Still Struggle With Diapers, Drool, Stigma And Isolation

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: On this Father's Day, let's hear about the growing number of stay-at-home dads in this country. Nationwide, the number of men who are full-time stay-at-home parents has risen significantly since the 1970s. But full-time fathers s

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'I Would Rather Die Than Go Back': Rohingya Refugees Settle Into Life In Bangladesh

DAVID GREENE, HOST: This week marks the one-year anniversary of what the Rohingya have begun to call the genocide. In late August of last year, Myanmar government soldiers and pro-government militias began coordinated attacks against the Rohingya Mus

美国国家公共电台 NPR Floodwaters From Florence Hit Elderly Hard

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Thousands of homes in North Carolina have been destroyed by Hurricane Florence and the flooding that followed. For the elderly, who are often living on fixed incomes and can't afford repairs, a flood can quickly become an evictio

美国国家公共电台 NPR Erratic Weather Threatens Livelihood Of Rice Farmers In Madagascar

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In Madagascar, rice is often served for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Not only is it a staple of the local diet, it's also one of the primary crops grown across the island. But erratic rains are disrupting rice production on

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Diabetes Fight, Lifestyle Changes Prove Hard To Come By In Mexico

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Here's a fact that tells you something about a country. It's the leading cause of death. The leading cause is different in different nations. In the United States, for example, it's long been heart disease. But as heart disease t

美国国家公共电台 NPR Report: Health Workers Attacked In 23 Countries Last Year

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There are rules in war - at least they're supposed to be. And one of those rules, according to the Geneva Conventions, is that hospitals should be safe from any kind of attack. It still happens though. A new report documents hund

美国国家公共电台 NPR Zika Cases Surge In Puerto Rico As Mosquitoes Flourish

Zika Cases Surge In Puerto Rico As Mosquitoes Flourish AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Puerto Rico is reporting more than a thousand new confirmed cases of Zika each week, and things are expected to get worse before they get better. NPR's Jason Beaubien is in P

美国国家公共电台 NPR An Orphanage In Honduras Puts Love At The Top Of Its Priority List

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Let's go now to the Honduran city of Tela, where it is a big day for Naomi Rodriguez (ph). The 15-year-old is competing in a pageant at school. She's chosen two outfits for the contest. But first, she's helping to make breakfast.

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: As we near the end of 2013, NPR is taking a look at the numbers that tell the story of this past year; numbers that if you really understand them, can give insight into the world we're living in right now. Over the next two weeks