在线英语听力室

VOA标准英语2014--US Launches Global Effort to Bolster Outbreak Preparedness 全球应对疫情爆发的努力

时间：2014-02-20 15:32:55

搜索关注在线英语听力室公众号：tingroom，领取免费英语资料大礼包。

（单词翻译）

US Launches Global Effort to Bolster1 Outbreak Preparedness 全球应对疫情爆发的努力

Controlling disease outbreaks that threaten global public health is the goal of a new, 26-nation partnership2 launched in Washington. The United States is leading a group of countries and international organizations to help improve the world’s ability to prevent, detect and respond to infectious disease threats.

When a lethal3 Ebola outbreak struck in 2012, Muslims in the Democratic Republic of Congo were barred from the Hajj pilgrimage.

In 2003, SARS leapt from China to more than two dozen countries with alarming speed.

Disease outbreaks anywhere are just a plane ride away in a globalized world, says U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

“Microbes and diseases are moving faster and farther than ever. And one thing we know for certain: they do not recognize or stop at national borders," said Sebelius.

And - she adds -  most countries are woefully underprepared for an outbreak.

So the United States has convened4 a group of low, middle and high-income countries in a joint5 effort to plug some of the gaps.

“Working together across at least 30 countries, we can protect at least 4 billion global citizens within the next 5 years," said Sebelius.

The effort aims to build on U.S. pilot programs in Vietnam and Uganda that helped improve disease testing and response to outbreaks.

And while the purpose is to contain global threats, it should help countries fight diseases locally, says public health expert Amesh Adalja with the Infectious Diseases Society of America - speaking via Skype.   

“A lot of the same technologies and techniques that you use in order to respond to, for example, an unknown disease are going to enhance your ability to respond to regular diseases.  For example, developing laboratory testing capacity, developing means to get vaccines6 or countermeasures to populations," said Adalja.

The Obama administration plans to commit $45 million in the next year to improve prevention, detection and response to infectious disease threats in developing countries.

 

And it is calling on other nations to contribute to preventing the next global pandemic.


分享到：


点击收听单词发音收听单词发音  

1 bolster ltOzK     
n.枕垫；v.支持，鼓励
参考例句：
  • The high interest rates helped to bolster up the economy.高利率使经济更稳健。
  • He tried to bolster up their morale.他尽力鼓舞他们的士气。
2 partnership NmfzPy     
n.合作关系，伙伴关系
参考例句：
  • The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
  • Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。
3 lethal D3LyB     
adj.致死的；毁灭性的
参考例句：
  • A hammer can be a lethal weapon.铁锤可以是致命的武器。
  • She took a lethal amount of poison and died.她服了致命剂量的毒药死了。
4 convened fbc66e55ebdef2d409f2794046df6cf1     
召开( convene的过去式 )； 召集； （为正式会议而）聚集； 集合
参考例句：
  • The chairman convened the committee to put the issue to a vote. 主席召集委员们开会对这个问题进行表决。
  • The governor convened his troops to put down the revolt. 总督召集他的部队去镇压叛乱。
5 joint m3lx4     
adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合
参考例句：
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
6 vaccines c9bb57973a82c1e95c7cd0f4988a1ded     
疫苗，痘苗( vaccine的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • His team are at the forefront of scientific research into vaccines. 他的小组处于疫苗科研的最前沿。
  • The vaccines were kept cool in refrigerators. 疫苗放在冰箱中冷藏。

本文本内容来源于互联网抓取和网友提交，仅供参考，部分栏目没有内容，如果您有更合适的内容，欢迎 点击提交 分享给大家。