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Drug-Resistant Malaria Spreads in Southeast Asia 东南亚地区耐药疟疾传播 From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语健康报道。 On Thailand's border with Myanmar, also known as Burma, a malari

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. They say all roads lead to Rome. Unfortunately that ain't all that roads lead to. A new study shows that roads can promote the spread of antibiotic-resis

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Wouldnt it be great if we could trade genes with other species? For example, suppose you could trade the family cat your genes for intelligence for its genes for physical coordination! Well, okay, thats not likely to happen anytime soon. But DNA trad

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - WHO Warns Against Misuse of Malaria DrugBy Jill Moss Broadcast: Monday, January 30, 2006 This is Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Development Report. The World Health Orga

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Conventional poultry farms use antibiotics extensively, which contributes to the rise of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. But farms that turn to organic

2006年VOA标准英语-Drug Resistant TB Is More Widespread Than Previ

By Jessica Berman Washington 24 December 2006 A new study by the World Health Organization has found drug-resistant tuberculosis in virtually all of the 79 countries the organization surveyed around the world, with particularly high levels in countr

VOA标准英语2012--Antibiotics Breed Drug Resistance in Pigs

Antibiotics Breed Drug Resistance in Pigs Pigs given low doses of antibiotics had more E. coli in their guts, and that bacteria showed an increased resistance to antibiotics, according to new research. The study confirms the routine practice of feedi

VOA标准英语2012--Drug-Resistant Malaria Threatens Effort to Control Disease

Drug-Resistant Malaria Threatens Effort to Control Disease The biggest fear is the resistance will spread across Southeast Asia and then spill over into Africa, where the vast majority of the 700,000 deaths a year [from malaria] occur. Historically,

VOA标准英语2012--MSF: Alarming Scope of Drug-Resistant TB

MSF: Alarming Scope of Drug-Resistant TB A medical aid group says the spread of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis is much greater than previously thought. Doctors Without Borders calls the situation alarming. MDR-TB is a form of tuberculosis that doe

VOA标准英语2010年-Use of Antibiotics in Livestock Debate

Animals in many large livestock-raising operations around the world get a small but steady dose of certain antibiotics in their feed. Doctors around the world are finding it harder and harder to cure some infections. Bacteria are developing resistanc

VOA标准英语2012--Math May Determine Best HIV Drug Combinations

Math May Determine Best HIV Drug Combinations Treating people infected with the AIDS virus involves using a combination of antiretroviral drugs. But some combinations work better than others. Now, a mathematical formula has been developed that may ev

VOA标准英语2014--抗药性疟疾在东南亚快速传播

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VOA标准英语2013--Scientists Race to Contain Malaria: New Discoveries, More Resistance

Scientists Race to Contain Malaria: New Discoveries, More Resistance Artemisinin has helped cut global malaria deaths by more than 25 percent over the past decade. But now, in parts of Southeast Asia, this drug no longer works. And the World Health O

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Artemisinin, also known as QingHaoSu in Chinese, was discovered by Chinese scientist Tu Youyou. She received the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine for the drug's discovery by her team more than three decades ago. In her speech at the Karol

2006年VOA标准英语-Uganda Fights Drug Resistance in Malaria,

By Carolyn Weaver Kampala, Uganda 03 May 2006 watch Drug Resistance report Anti-microbial resistance -- germs becoming resistant to medicine -- is part of the natural history of infectious disease. No

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VOA常速英语2008年-New Malaria Drug Launched in Latin America, Sou

By Lisa Schlein Washington 17 April 2008 A new drug that offers hope to millions of malaria sufferers is being launched in Latin America and Southeast Asia. The medicine, developed by a Brazilian pharmaceutical company and a non-profit drug developme

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Artemisinin, also known as QingHaoSu in Chinese, was discovered by Chinese scientist Tu Youyou. She received the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine for the drug's discovery by her team more than three decades ago. In her speech at the Karol

2007年VOA标准英语-Study Finds Drug Resistance Fades Quickly in Ke

By David McAlary Washington 10 January 2007 One of the main weapons to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the AIDS virus during birth is the drug nevirapine. But when nevirapine is used alone just once, HIV starts becoming resistant to it. Rese

VOA标准英语2010年-Effort to Stem Drug-Resistant Malaria

Malaria patients being treated at the hospital in Pailin, Cambodia. This spot on the Thai-Cambodian border is home to a form of malaria that keeps rendering one powerful drug after another useless (file photo) Health experts were alarmed to find a st