VOA标准英语2012--Tuberculosis Cases Down, Disease Still A Major Killer
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(十月)
Tuberculosis 1 Cases Down, Disease Still A Major Killer 2
The news from the World Health Organization is mixed: some 20 million people are alive today as a result of international efforts to control tuberculosis and care for those who have it. As a result, the death rate has dropped by 40 percent since 1990, but lately, it has remained stubbornly level.
And progress has been painfully slow in reducing the overall number of TB cases, and in containing the spread of multi-drug resistant 3 strains of the infection.
Dr. Mario Raviglione, with the WHO, discussed the agency's 2012 report at a Washington news conference.
Dr. Raviglione said a shortage of money threatens to halt progress in containing the spread of TB, and he warns of serious consequences if this funding gap is not filled.
"We will have to accept that millions more people will be dying of tuberculosis on an annual basis. We'll have to accept that the incidents of TB, instead of going towards elimination-- which is what we hope for --is going to stagnate 4 and increase again, and we'll have to accept that multi-drug resistant TB will be created and further spread," he said.
Tuberculosis is a bacterial 5 infection that primarily affects the lungs, although it can be found in other organs. It's highly contagious 6, and it's transmitted by breathing in droplets 7 of air from the cough or sneeze of a TB-infected person.
The WHO report shows more than half the number of TB cases are in Asia. Forty percent are in India and China.
But the problem in sub-Saharan Africa is also severe because many of those who have TB also have HIV/AIDS. Eighty percent of those infected with both TB and HIV live in this region.
But doctors now have rapid TB tests that can show if a person has the infection in about an hour and a half. And new drugs to fight TB will soon be available.
"We expect two, if not three, entirely 8 new compounds that kill the TB bacillus very effectively to be available in the next few months," Dr. Raviglione stated.
A vaccine 9 to prevent TB is what scientists hope for. But until one can be developed, the World Heath Organization is calling for countries to commit to TB control programs and increased testing and for international donors 10 to continue large-scale funding of these efforts.
- People used to go to special health spring to recover from tuberculosis.人们常去温泉疗养胜地治疗肺结核。
- Tuberculosis is a curable disease.肺结核是一种可治愈的病。
- Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
- The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。
- 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。
- Where the masses are not roused,work will stagnate.哪里不发动群众，哪里的工作就死气沉沉。
- Taiwan's economy is likely to stagnate for a long time to come.台湾经济很可能会停滞很长一段时间。
- Bacterial reproduction is accelerated in weightless space. 在失重的空间，细菌繁殖加快了。
- Brain lesions can be caused by bacterial infections. 大脑损伤可能由细菌感染引起。
- It's a highly contagious infection.这种病极易传染。
- He's got a contagious laugh.他的笑富有感染力。
- Droplets of sweat were welling up on his forehead. 他额头上冒出了滴滴汗珠。 来自辞典例句
- In constrast, exhaled smoke contains relatively large water droplets and appears white. 相反，从人嘴里呼出的烟则包含相当大的水滴，所以呈白色。 来自辞典例句
- The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
- His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。
- 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。