AGRICULTURE REPORT - Bird Flu in Hong Kong

AGRICULTURE REPORT – February 19, 2002: Bird Flu in Hong Kong By George Grow This is the VOA Special English AGRICULTURE REPORT. Health workers in Hong Kong are attempting to halt the spread of a vi

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It was September. People were getting sick all over the world. They were getting sick from the flu. The flu was called H1N1. Some people called it swine flu. The swine farmers did not like that. They said, Stop calling it swine flu. Swine dont have t

2006年VOA标准英语-1918 Spanish Flu Holds Clues to Future Pan

By Jim Bertel Washington, DC 17 February 2006 watch Bird Flu report As the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu continues to spread from Asia to the Middle East, Africa and Europe, there have been many pred

2006年VOA标准英语-UN Warns Bird Flu in Turkey Could Spread t

By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 11 January 2006 Officials collect chickens in October to fight an outbreak of avian flu in Kiziksa village, in western Turkey The U.N. food and agriculture agency is warnin

2006年VOA标准英语-First Avian Flu Outbreak Hits Africa

By John Shields Washington 10 February 2006 watch Africa Bird Flu report Chickens for sale in a Lagos market The World Health Organization says this week's outbreak of the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus

2006年VOA标准英语-Effort to Combat Bird Flu Detailed to US C

By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 03 March 2006 watch Combating Bird Flu Migratory birds Last year, avian flu was confined to four countries in Asia. Today, the virus is reported in 33 nations on three

2006年VOA标准英语-Bird Flu Experts Push for Early Detection,

By Steve Herman Tokyo 12 January 2006 Experts at an international conference on avian influenza are being told their governments must do more to ensure early detection of the virus if a global human p

365个英语简短小故事-304. Avoid the Flu

Flu season occurs annually in countries that have cold weather in the winter. Although the influenza virus is alive throughout the world in all four seasons, it seems to have its greatest impact on humans during the winter. Scientists are not sure wh

2006年VOA标准英语-WHO: Avian Flu Rapidly Spreading in Birds

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 23 May 2006 Public Health Experts attending the World Health Assembly say the H5N1 virus in birds is rapidly spreading around the world. The World Health Organization urges nati

2006年VOA标准英语-Bird Flu Outbreak in Thailand Renews Fears Amon

By Barry Newhouse Bangkok 01 August 2006 Tourism representatives in Thailand have expressed concern after last week's first reported bird flu death in the country in seven months. Tourism is critical to the Thai economy and the industry is urging th

2007年VOA标准英语-Bird Flu Still Seen as Problem Despite Better C

By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 27 June 2007 Health and veterinary experts have singled out Indonesia, Egypt and Nigeria as countries where the risk of bird flu contagion is particularly worrisome. Gathered at the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization

2006年VOA标准英语-Bird Flu Computer Database Helps Scientist

By Deborah Block Washington, DC 24 January 2006 watch Bird Flu Database report A computer database in the United States is helping researchers find a human vaccine for the bird flu virus -- a disease

2006年VOA标准英语-Good Chance Bird Flu Will Mutate

By Cathryn Curtis Washington, DC 16 March 2006 watch Bird Flu Mutations report Swabing inside of mouth of bird As the threat of bird flu spreads around the world, the big question on the minds of scie

2006年VOA标准英语-Scientists Develop Possible Bird Flu Vaccine Us

By Deborah Block Washington, D.C. 26 June 2006 watch Bird Flu report Researchers are working on developing vaccines for bird flu before it becomes a worldwide epidemic. The University of Massachusetts Medical School in the United States has teamed w

VOA双语新闻 Bird Flu Conference Urges $100 Million for Re

Delegates at a global conference on avian influenza have called for at least $100 million in new funding to fight the disease before it has a chance to mutate into a human strain. The call came as Vietnam reported two new possible cases of bird flu i

2006年VOA标准英语- UN Experts Warn Bird Flu Could Devastate

By Luis Ramirez Beijing 19 January 2006 U.N. experts are warning that Africa is a likely new location for the emergence of bird flu, and they say the spread of the virus onto the African continent cou

2006年VOA标准英语-Five New Bird Flu Cases Confirmed in Turke

Turkish health minister Recep Akdag says preliminary tests show five more people are infected with the bird flu virus. The cases were detected in four provinces, raising the number of suspected and co

2006年VOA标准英语-UN Officials Say Bird Flu Threat Remains H

By Scott Bobb Bangkok 10 April 2006 United Nations officials say the bird flu virus that has killed more than 100 people and millions of fowl in various parts of the world continues to pose a major th

Xiaolu Guo

BBC Learning English People and Places Xiaolu Guo Amber:Hello! Today, we meet a young and highly-successful Chinese writer and film- maker, Xiaolu Guo. She talks about learning English, and about how she had fun trying to find the right kind of Engl

2007年VOA标准英语-New Reports of Bird Flu in Southeast Asia

By Martin Secrest Washington, D.C. 17 January 2007 watch Bird Flu report Bird flu has killed again in Indonesia and is picking up speed elsewhere in Asia, with fresh outbreaks in Vietnam and a new human case reported in China [Wed., Jan. 10]. The cas