VOA慢速英语2014 东南亚地区耐药疟疾传播

 

Drug-Resistant¹ Malaria² 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 malaria research and treatment center is increasing efforts to kill, or eliminate, a drug-resistant form of the parasite³ before it spreads abroad. VOA correspondent Steve Sandford reports from Thailand.

泰国与缅甸接壤的地方，有一个疟疾研究和治疗中心，正致力于杀死，或消除耐药性寄生虫在其传播到海外之前。VOA记者史蒂夫·桑福德[Steve Sandford]泰国报道。

A health center near a busy border crossing in Thailand has had great success over the last 20 years in reducing the effect of malaria.

一个临近繁忙过境跨越泰国的医疗中心已经取得了巨大的成功，在过去的20年中致力于减少疟疾的影响。

Cases of the disease have greatly decreased. But doctors like Cindy Chu remain worried.

这个疾病的病例已经大大降低。但是医生们和辛迪楚[Cindy Chu]仍然担心。

"We used to see a lot of malaria at the Wangpha clinic but now with efforts of elimination⁴ and active surveillance and even the setting up of malaria posts on the other side of the border, the malaria rates have really gone down. So we don't see as much malaria as we used to. On the other hand, the malaria that we do see is more complicated. And because of artemisinin resistance, the cases we see here require additional therapy."

“我们曾经在wangpha诊所看到很多的疟疾病例，但是现在致力于消除和主动监测，甚至在边界的另一边建立疟疾站，疟疾率真的已经下降。我们没有看到像以前看到的那么多疟疾。另一方面，我们看到的疟疾是更复杂的。由于青蒿素的耐药性，我们在这里看到的病例需要额外的治疗。”

Medicines called Artemisinin have been highly effective against malaria when used in combination with other drugs. Using a combination of drugs is called a "cocktail⁵."

被称为青蒿素的药物与其他药物联合使用能够非常有效的对抗疟疾。结合使用的药物称为“鸡尾酒”。

But in five countries in Southeast Asia -- Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar and Laos -- the malaria organism, or parasite, has developed a resistance to the treatment. Drug-resistant means that the drug no longer treats the disease.

但在南亚五个国家——柬埔寨，越南，泰国，缅甸和老挝——疟疾的生物体，或寄生虫，已经发展出一种对治疗物的抵抗。抗药性是指药物不再对抗疾病。

Doctors can still treat infected patients with stronger drug cocktails⁶. But they worry that it is just a matter of time before those medicines also become ineffective.

医生还可以用具有较强的药物鸡尾酒治疗感染的患者。但他们担心，那只是个时间的问题，这些药物也将变得无效。

Dr. Francois Nosten has been leading research on the Thai - Myanmar border for the past 30 years. He says that the clock is ticking, meaning time is running out.

弗朗索瓦[Francois Nosten]博士在过去的30年中一直在泰缅边境领导研究。他说，时钟滴答作响，意味着时间过去了。

"This is a global public health emergency because we could see in our studies that the progression of resistance is quite fast. For example in 2007 none of the patients were infected with a resistant parasite. In 2012, 80% of the patients are infected with the resistant parasite, so in just a few years the majority of the infections are caused by the resistant parasite."

“这是一个全球性的公共健康紧急事件，因为我们可以看到在我们的研究中，抵抗的进展相当快。例如，2007年没有一个患者感染耐药性的寄生虫。在2012年，80%的患者感染了耐药性的寄生虫，所以在短短几年内，大多数的感染是由抗寄生虫引起的。”

Dr. Nosten wants a stronger method of dealing⁷ with resistant malaria to control its spread. He wants to give medicine to whole villages where the parasite can lie inactive and unseen in many people.

（Nosten）博士想提高对付抗药性疟疾控制其传播的方法。他想给药物给整个村庄，那里寄生虫可以存在许多人不活动或看不见的区域。

"What we predict is in order to stop the progression of artemisinin resistance, we need to eliminate malaria. It's not good to just reduce the number of cases, reduce the transmission of the disease, we need to eliminate the parasite."

“我们预测的是为了阻止青蒿素耐药性的发展，我们需要消除疟疾。只是减少病例的数量是不好的，减少疾病的传播，我们需要消除寄生虫。”

Medical teams are making plans to give anti-malarial drugs in villages where many cases of malaria have been reported. Many are hoping that this effort will stop the spread of an increasingly dangerous parasite.

医疗小组正在制定计划，给许多有疟疾病例报告的村庄送去抗疟疾的药物。许多人都希望这一努力将停止越来越危险的寄生虫的传播。

1 resistant   

adj.(to)抵抗的，有抵抗力的

参考例句：

• Many pests are resistant to the insecticide.许多害虫对这种杀虫剂有抵抗力。
• They imposed their government by force on the resistant population.他们以武力把自己的统治强加在持反抗态度的人民头上。

2 malaria   

n.疟疾

参考例句：

• He had frequent attacks of malaria.他常患疟疾。
• Malaria is a kind of serious malady.疟疾是一种严重的疾病。

3 parasite   

n.寄生虫；寄生菌；食客

参考例句：

• The lazy man was a parasite on his family.那懒汉是家里的寄生虫。
• I don't want to be a parasite.I must earn my own way in life.我不想做寄生虫，我要自己养活自己。

4 elimination   

n.排除，消除，消灭

参考例句：

• Their elimination from the competition was a great surprise.他们在比赛中遭到淘汰是个很大的意外。
• I was eliminated from the 400 metres in the semi-finals.我在400米半决赛中被淘汰。

5 cocktail   

n.鸡尾酒；餐前开胃小吃；混合物

参考例句：

• We invited some foreign friends for a cocktail party.我们邀请了一些外国朋友参加鸡尾酒会。
• At a cocktail party in Hollywood,I was introduced to Charlie Chaplin.在好莱坞的一次鸡尾酒会上，人家把我介绍给查理·卓别林。

6 cocktails   

n.鸡尾酒( cocktail的名词复数 )；餐前开胃菜；混合物

参考例句：

• Come about 4 o'clock. We'll have cocktails and grill steaks. 请四点钟左右来，我们喝鸡尾酒，吃烤牛排。 来自辞典例句
• Cocktails were a nasty American habit. 喝鸡尾酒是讨厌的美国习惯。 来自辞典例句

7 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。