与MERS患者密接者仍有13人未找到

 　　According to health authorities in Guangdong, the condition of China's first MERS patient has worsened and more medical experts have been dispatched¹.

　　The patient, a South Korean national, is now receiving medical treatment in Huizhou City after testing positive for the deadly MERS virus on Friday.

　　Authorities said it's believed that 77 people in the province came into close contact with the man.

　　Among them, 64 have been quarantined while contact is yet to be made with the remaining 13.

　　The man flew from South Korea to Hong Kong on last Tuesday before entering Guangdong.

　　In Hong Kong, 18 passengers on the man's flight have been quarantined, including a high school student.

　　与MERS患者密接者仍有13人未找到

　　An unidentified source with the school says they have conducted sterilization² on campus. But, so far, they will not require students and staff to wear masks.

　　"We got a phone call from the department of health on Friday afternoon, saying that a freshman³ in our school had been on the same flight with the man, so the student was required to be isolated⁴ and observed. The student went to school for two days after returning to Hong Kong, showing no abnormality."

　　Secretary for Food and Health of Hong Kong SAR government Ko Wing-man says if the quarantined people do not show any symptoms, the possibility they have spread the virus decreases.

　　"As for those places they have visited, if people who had close contact with the patient do not show any symptoms, the risk of the spread of the virus will decrease. And I know some places have voluntarily conducted sterilization process, which is a kind of proper action anytime since it is the first line of defense⁵ to prevent transmissions⁶."

　　The 18 people will be quarantined for about 10 more days.

　　In South Korea, the total number of confirmed cases diagnosed⁷ with MERS has increased to 15.

　　Moon Hyung-pyo, South Korea's Health Minister, says the government will try its best to prevent the spread of the virus.

　　"The government sees next week as the point for MERS to spread further or the point at which it can be defused. We will put all effort into preventing tertiary transmissions."

　　South Korea's patient zero has been isolated since May 20th when he tested positive for MERS after returning from the Middle East.

　　MERS is a respiratory illness caused by a type of corona-virus.

　　Its fatality⁸ rate is around 40 percent. No vaccine⁹ or treatment for the virus is available.

　　For CRI, I am Yu Yang.

1 dispatched   

（常指为了特殊原因或执行特殊任务而迅速地）派遣( dispatch的过去式和过去分词 )； 杀死； （迅速地）发出； 迅速处理

参考例句：

• Troops have been dispatched to the area. 部队已派往那个地区。
• A Chinese trade mission has been dispatched to Japan. 一个中国贸易代表团已被派往日本。

2 sterilization   

n.杀菌，绝育；灭菌

参考例句：

• Sterilization by filtration is subject to one major theoretical limitation. 过滤灭菌具有一个理论上的局限性。 来自辞典例句
• Sterilization is a treatment that frees the treated object of all living organisms. 灭菌处理是从处理对象排除一切生活的生物。 来自辞典例句

3 freshman   

n.大学一年级学生(可兼指男女)

参考例句：

• Jack decided to live in during his freshman year at college.杰克决定大一时住校。
• He is a freshman in the show business.他在演艺界是一名新手。

4 isolated   

adj.与世隔绝的

参考例句：

• His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
• Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。

5 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

6 transmissions   

播送( transmission的名词复数 )； 传送； （电台或电视）信息； 传动装置

参考例句：

• We interrupt our normal transmissions to bring you a piece of special news. 我们中断正常节目，播送一条特别新闻。
• Successive transmissions of the same message are decreasingly accurate. 连续地传递同样的讯息，其精确性会逐渐降低。

7 diagnosed   

诊断( diagnose的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Some foetal malformations cannot be diagnosed until late in pregnancy. 有些胎儿的畸形部位得等到妊娠后期才能诊断出来。
• He diagnosed the trouble that caused the engine to knock. 他找出了引擎咔咔响的毛病所在。

8 fatality   

n.不幸，灾祸，天命

参考例句：

• She struggle against fatality in vain.她徒然奋斗反抗宿命。
• He began to have a growing sense of fatality.他开始有一种越来越强烈的宿命感。

9 vaccine   

n.牛痘苗，疫苗；adj.牛痘的，疫苗的

参考例句：

• 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。