英伦广角 2014-11-22 英国养鸭场发现禽流感病例 6年来首次

 The duck egg farm at the center of the first bird flu outbreak in Britain for 6 years is locked down. Government agency officials have taken control. Farm workers noticed a drop in the number of eggs being laid here a week ago, followed by large numbers of the duck dying. They caught infects last week. Ministerial officials came on Friday and took swabs and blood samples to be sent away for testing for bird flu. Those tests came back positive for the H5 strain, not dangerous to humans, but potentially devastating¹ for Britain’s farmers. 

 

If this turns out to be the same strain of virus as in Germany and the Netherlands, then 3 outbreaks is not a comfortable place to be if we don’t know how the virus is getting from place to place. 

 

The 6000 ducks here will have to be slaughtered² while all poultry³ and captive birds movements are controlled in the surrounding area. A 10-km radius⁴ surveillance zone is now centered on the farm. Birds and animals can not be removed without permission from farms where poultry or captive birds are kept. And even tighter rules are in place on farmers and members of the public who have poultry or captive birds within a 3-km radius. But in the Netherlands, they are worried about the risk to humans of an outbreak of a much more infectious strain of bird flu, H5M8 which has been discovered in a poultry farm. 

 

We all looked to contain this outbreak as quick as we possibly can. But we are at the early stage here now and we are also conscious that there have been cases elsewhere in Europe and they may well be linked. So we will be working with our colleagues in other countries and the European Commission too.  

 

In the center of the village where the outbreak occurred, there is a duck pond, most locals here seem unconcerned by the restrictions⁵.

 

I am happy really, I mean you can only control so much and I think that’s what we have controlled.

 

You don’t worry about these things. Feed into the food chain or anything. 

 

I have not seen any restrictions or anything, and you? Nope.

 

Ministeria officials are working to identify where this disease came from and whether this is the only outbreak.

 

SKY News, Nafferton, east Yorkshire.

1 devastating   

adj.毁灭性的，令人震惊的，强有力的

参考例句：

• It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
• Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。

2 slaughtered   

v.屠杀，杀戮，屠宰( slaughter的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The invading army slaughtered a lot of people. 侵略军杀了许多人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Hundreds of innocent civilians were cruelly slaughtered. 数百名无辜平民遭残杀。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 poultry   

n.家禽，禽肉

参考例句：

• There is not much poultry in the shops. 商店里禽肉不太多。
• What do you feed the poultry on? 你们用什么饲料喂养家禽?

4 radius   

n.半径，半径范围；有效航程，范围，界限

参考例句：

• He has visited every shop within a radius of two miles.周围两英里以内的店铺他都去过。
• We are measuring the radius of the circle.我们正在测量圆的半径。

5 restrictions   

约束( restriction的名词复数 )； 管制； 制约因素； 带限制性的条件（或规则）

参考例句：

• I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
• a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制