中国实验室检测团队抵达塞拉利昂

 　　A 59-member Chinese team has arrived in Sierra Leone as China says it will continue to do its part to contain Ebola.

　　The team will be based at the Sierra Leone-China Friendship Hospital, some 30 kilometers east of the capital city of Freetown.

　　They will carry out lab screening and testing to help the West African country combat the Ebola epidemic¹.

　　Chinese Foreign Ministry² spokesman Hong Lei says the outbreak is a major issue for Chinese authorities.

　　中国实验室检测团队抵达塞拉利昂

　　"China has been highly concerned of the Western African countries since the outbreak of Ebola epidemic. We have been strongly supporting their efforts in fighting the virus and offered humanitarian³ medical assistance to Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea-Bissau in the first time. China will continue to work with the international community and contribute to the early control of Ebola epidemic."

　　China has already dispatched 174 medical experts to Ebola-hit countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

　　Meantime, a former nurse in the UK became the first person in the UK to receive an experimental Ebola vaccine⁴ in an early trial to test its safety.

　　The 48-year old says she feels fine after an injection of the medicine.

　　Scientists hope the trial will be finished by the end of this year.

　　So far, the current outbreak has killed at least 2,400 people.

1 epidemic   

n.流行病；盛行；adj.流行性的，流传极广的

参考例句：

• That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.那种传染病早已绝迹。
• The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.当局试图把流行病限制在局部范围。

2 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

3 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

4 vaccine   

n.牛痘苗，疫苗；adj.牛痘的，疫苗的

参考例句：

• The polio vaccine has saved millions of lives.脊髓灰质炎疫苗挽救了数以百万计的生命。
• She takes a vaccine against influenza every fall.她每年秋季接种流感疫苗。