VOA标准英语2012--Ban Calls for Renewed Effort to Wipe Out Polio
时间：2018-12-16 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(九月)
Ban Calls for Renewed Effort to Wipe Out Polio
Creating a polio-free world - that is what international leaders gathered in New York said they hope to do. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon expressed his delight at the new promises by member states to step up their fight against the disease.
“One day when polio is eradicated 2 I want everyone in this room to remember that we were here today and that we made the right commitment, we took the right action at the right time to leave a polio free world for future generation," he said.
Leaders of countries where polio is endemic - including Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, Nigeria's President GoodLuck Jonathan, and Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari - said they will make polio eradication 3 a priority:
“Afghanistan will strive hard and hard and hard and surely achieve the goal sooner rather than later," said Karzai.
“I believe that this is a war we will win," said Jonathan.
“Make a solemn pledge to make Pakistan and rest of the world polio-free," said Zardari.
Bill Gates is co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the leading donors 4 to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Gates said he is optimistic that with the available vaccines 5, financial resources, and new country commitments, polio could soon be history.
“I think we have the evidence now that by all of us stepping up and doing our best work we can end the disease, [but] we need to act quickly and we need to have a comprehensive plan," said Gates.
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is developing long-term strategies for polio endemic countries and also for high-risk polio-free countries. The initiative aims to certify 6 polio's eradication worldwide by the year 2018.
“By 2018 to be able to certify that the world is free of polio, the last case would have occurred some considerable time before that," said Dr. Chris Elias, president of Global Development at the Gates Foundation. "But in order to have the certainty that it is gone, we need to make sure to keep up our efforts while we are strengthening surveillance and making sure that in fact there are no more cases.".
Experts estimate that wiping out polio will save the world $40 to $50 billion over the next 20 years. And they say the resources assembled to eradicate 1 polio can also be deployed 7 for surveillance and immunization against other preventable disease.
- These insects are very difficult to eradicate.这些昆虫很难根除。
- They are already battling to eradicate illnesses such as malaria and tetanus.他们已经在努力消灭疟疾、破伤风等疾病。
- Polio has been virtually eradicated in Brazil. 在巴西脊髓灰质炎实际上已经根除。
- The disease has been eradicated from the world. 这种疾病已在全世界得到根除。
- 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。
- Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去，请给我们发电子邮件。
- About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- 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。