英闻天下——513 All Provincial Regions Can Test For H7N9

 　　Flu labs in all 31 provincial¹ regions here on the Chinese mainland are now capable of testing for the H7N9 bird flu virus.

 

　　So far 38 people in the Yangtze River Delta² region have come down with the virus.

 

　　10 have died.

 

　　We get more from CRI's Li Jing.

 

　　Chinese Health authorities have sent a total of 160-thousand samples to provincial labs for testing.

 

　　Authorities are developing the testing reagents as quickly as possible to control the potential spread of H7N9 outside the Yangtze River Delta region.

 

　　Yao Weimin is with the Animal disease control and Prevention Center in the city of Zhenjiang in Jiangsu.

 

　　"The H7N9 bird flu virus is highly pathogenic to human, but has little impact on birds. In fact, most birds don't show symptoms or die because of the virus. It may be a latent virus. As such, it's only through lab samples that can we test whether birds are positive for the virus."

 

　　In order to effectively cope with the new strain of bird flu, health authorities in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui have agreed to pool their resources to try to control the spread of the disease.

 

　　This includes information sharing and other cooperation.

 

　　Meanwhile, an international team is being organized to offer technical support for Chinese health authorities.

 

　　Subhash Morzaria with the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization says the Chinese government has been taking the right steps in trying to prevent the virus from spreading.

 

　　"So the bio-security means, two things, one is to ensure the infection doesn't spread from where the primacies. And if your.. to your. That is bio-security. Now government plays a very important role for example in China. In all these four provinces, the government has banned first all the live market. Second one, the government has stopped export of poultry³ from these four provinces to the neighboring provinces of China."

 

　　Chinese health authorities say their main goal now is monitoring for signs of the virus in both the areas affected⁴ and regions which haven't seen cases of H7N9.

 

　　They're looking for changes in the virus, such as its resistance to drugs.

 

　　They're also looking for variations of the gene⁵ sequences to try to isolate⁶ them before mutations can lead to human-to-human transmissions.

 

　　For CRI, this is Li Jing.

1 provincial   

adj.省的，地方的；n．外省人，乡下人

参考例句：

• City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
• Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。

2 delta   

n.（流的）角洲

参考例句：

• He has been to the delta of the Nile.他曾去过尼罗河三角洲。
• The Nile divides at its mouth and forms a delta.尼罗河在河口分岔，形成了一个三角洲。

3 poultry   

n.家禽，禽肉

参考例句：

• There is not much poultry in the shops. 商店里禽肉不太多。
• What do you feed the poultry on? 你们用什么饲料喂养家禽?

4 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

5 gene   

n.遗传因子，基因

参考例句：

• A single gene may have many effects.单一基因可能具有很多种效应。
• The targeting of gene therapy has been paid close attention.其中基因治疗的靶向性是值得密切关注的问题之一。

6 isolate   

vt.使孤立，隔离

参考例句：

• Do not isolate yourself from others.不要把自己孤立起来。
• We should never isolate ourselves from the masses.我们永远不能脱离群众。