印尼小儿麻痹症患者数量有所上升

Polio Cases Rise in Indonesia

印尼小儿麻痹症患者数量有所上升

 

Polio has stricken dozens of children in Indonesia and is continuing to spread. The government is preparing for a national immunization drive in an effort to stop the potentially crippling disease.

 

The World Health Organization says the number of cases of polio in Indonesia has climbed to over 100 and is urging wider immunization to stop the disease from infecting more children.

 

The Indonesian government launched an emergency immunization campaign in May, vaccinating¹ around 6.5 million children in West Java province, where the first case was found, and in the neighboring provinces of Banten and Jakarta.

 

A second immunization drive has just been completed in the same region, and the government is gearing up for a national immunization day because some cases have been found throughout the country.

 

The head of the WHO's polio immunization program in Indonesia, Dr. Bardan Jung Rana, says the government needs to launch the national immunization drive as soon as possible.

 

Dr. Rana: We do expect the cases will rise for some time. We're hoping the NID, the National Immunization Day, comes soon, because the sooner it comes the quicker we are hoping that the cases will start declining.

 

Polio had not been seen in Indonesia from 1995 until the first new case appeared in April, and the rapid spread has dealt a major blow to a United Nations program aimed at the global eradication² of polio by the end of this year.

 

Dr. Rana says polio will not be eliminated until all children are vaccinated⁴ against the disease.

 

Dr. Rana: The idea is to make sure that every child is immunized until and unless we absolutely got rid of the polio virus from the world completely and that's what the aim has been - to have global eradication.

 

Polio usually attacks the central nervous system, and can cause paralysis⁵, muscular atrophy⁶, and sometimes death.

 

Dr. Rana says the polio virus was probably brought to Indonesia from Yemen or Saudi Arabia by international travelers, who may have passed on a strain that originated in Nigeria.

 

The disease, which is waterborne, remains⁷ endemic in six countries - Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Egypt, Nigeria, and Niger.

 

Nancy-Amelia Collins, VOA news, Jakarta.

 

注释：

potentially [pE5tenF(E)li] adv. 潜在地

crippling [5kripliN] adj. 临界的, 极限的

immunization [7imju:nai5zeiFEn] n. 使免除

vaccinate³ [5vAksineit] v. 进行预防接种

eradication [i7rAdi5keiFEn] n. 根除

central nervous system 中枢神经系统

paralysis [pE5rAlisis] n. 瘫痪

endemic [en5demik] n. 地方病

1 vaccinating   

给…接种疫苗( vaccinate的现在分词 )； 注射疫苗，接种疫苗

参考例句：

• At first blush, vaccinating the wolves against rabies seems a simple solution. 乍一看来，为狼群注射防狂犬病疫苗是一种简单的办法。
• Also vaccinating children against misers (measles) has saved many lives. 还有，给儿童进行疫苗接种防止麻疹也挽救了许多生命。

2 eradication   

n.根除

参考例句：

• The eradication of an established infestation is not easy. 根除昆虫蔓延是不容易的。
• This is often required for intelligent control and eradication. 这经常需要灵巧的控制与消除。

3 vaccinate   

vt.给…接种疫苗；种牛痘

参考例句：

• Local health officials then can plan the best times to vaccinate people.这样，当地的卫生官员就可以安排最佳时间给人们接种疫苗。
• Doctors vaccinate us so that we do not catch smallpox.医生给我们打预防针使我们不会得天花。

4 vaccinated   

[医]已接种的，种痘的，接种过疫菌的

参考例句：

• I was vaccinated against tetanus. 我接种了破伤风疫苗。
• Were you vaccinated against smallpox as a child? 你小时候打过天花疫苗吗？

5 paralysis   

n.麻痹(症)；瘫痪(症)

参考例句：

• The paralysis affects his right leg and he can only walk with difficulty.他右腿瘫痪步履维艰。
• The paralysis affects his right leg and he can only walk with difficulty.他右腿瘫痪步履维艰。

6 atrophy   

n./v.萎缩，虚脱，衰退

参考例句：

• Patients exercised their atrophied limbs in the swimming pool.病人们在泳池里锻炼萎缩的四肢。
• Many hoped he would renew the country's atrophied political system.很多人都期望他能使该国萎靡的政治体系振作起来。

7 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。