by Jill Moss Broadcast: July 23, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Health Report. A medical company in Australia, PanBio, has developed a new test for West Nile 1)virus. The test ex

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CANBERRA, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- A rare virus that can be contracted by humans has killed a large number of Victorian pigeons after being detected in the Australian state for the first time, Agriculture Department confirmed on Tuesday. According to the

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LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: Ticks are known to carry Lyme disease. You probably already know that. But there are about a dozen other diseases carried by ticks that are cropping up and spreading across this country. It's part of a trend around the world. Ove

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Smartphones are being used to combat the dreaded mosquito in Italy, with a new app that tracks the location of the blood-sucking pests. 意大利人很怕蚊子,于是用上智能手机来抵御蚊害:一种新开发的应用程序将能追踪到这

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本期内容: American scientists announced that they had cloned the Zika virus. This is an important stage in producing a safe version of the pathogen to be used in a vaccine against the mosquito-borne illness, which has been linked to brain defor

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South Korea's Olympic committee has unveiled special clothing to protect athletes from the Zika virus when they go to Brazil. The committee said the long-sleeved shirts and trousers would help protect the athletes from the mosquito-borne virus at the

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