新手机应用帮助抗击埃博拉

 　　A new smart phone application is helping¹ Health workers in Guinea in their fight against Ebola.

　　The West African nation is one of the worst hit by the deadly virus.

　　Health workers in Conakry, the capital of Guinea, are now using the app to locate and monitor people who may have come into contact with other confirmed Ebola patient.

　　The piles of paper work involved in the process have now been cut down, thanks to the new app.

　　新手机应用帮助抗击埃博拉病毒

　　The app called CommCare was designed by the UN Population Fund together with Columbia University.

　　Edwige Adekambi Domingo is head of the UN Population Fund in Guinea.

　　"We are in the 21st century and we are now adopting the latest developments in information technology. We decided² to integrate this mobile application called CommCare into our contact tracing work."

　　The app allows field workers to share the latest information on the spread of the virus with hospitals at the touch of a button. A rapid response to any new cases can then be organized.

　　Almost 160 tracers in Guinea have been trained to use this app so far, and over 2,000 Ebola 'contacts' have been logged using the application.

　　The plan is to deploy³ the application in Sierra Leone, which has had the highest number of Ebola cases so far.

1 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

2 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

3 deploy   

v.（军）散开成战斗队形，布置，展开

参考例句：

• The infantry began to deploy at dawn.步兵黎明时开始进入战斗位置。
• The president said he had no intention of deploying ground troops.总统称并不打算部署地面部队。