英伦广角 2009-07-19 猪流感疫苗安全吗？

As the pandemic grows, so too does the pressure to provide a vaccine¹, the first samples of the swine flu jab should be ready for trials next month. But it’s emerged that the vaccine will be made available to the NHS before the full results of those trials are known and some doctors worry the process is being rushed.

I’m very concerned that a vaccine might be brought out too quickly. There is a huge demand for it from doctors and patients and yet it hasn’t been fully² tested. We know from the past that these types of vaccines³ can cause neurological disorders⁴ and there is an overall concern that if the vaccine is used too soon it may have more problems than swine flu itself.

Scientists have been working on a swine flu jab since April. The government's placed advanced orders for up to 132 million doses . W hen it’s delivered, there will be trials involving between 200 and 400 patients. But will the vaccine be safe? Government scientists are adamant⁵ that it will.Three core vaccines on which this one will be based have been trialed successfully on thousands of people and a new vaccine will have to pass a rigorous licensing⁶ process before it’s used on the public.

The way that you work with a pandemic vaccine is that you don't know what the pandemic vaccines are going to be,so you make a core vaccine which has happened in this case. You perform clinical trials on that and the core vaccines for those we will get for the, in this pandemic have gone through clinical trials on between 5000 and 6000 people.

The Department of Health has branded the safety claims irresponsible and says they will cause unnecessary panic. 60 million doses of vaccine will be available by Christmas, enough to immunize half the UK population and any new vaccine will be thoroughly⁷ tested before it’s used.

Simon Newton, Sky News

 

1 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。

2 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

3 vaccines   

疫苗，痘苗( vaccine的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• 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。

4 disorders   

n.混乱( disorder的名词复数 )；凌乱；骚乱；（身心、机能）失调

参考例句：

• Reports of anorexia and other eating disorders are on the increase. 据报告，厌食症和其他饮食方面的功能紊乱发生率正在不断增长。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The announcement led to violent civil disorders. 这项宣布引起剧烈的骚乱。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 adamant   

adj.坚硬的，固执的

参考例句：

• We are adamant on the building of a well-off society.在建设小康社会这一点上，我们是坚定不移的。
• Veronica was quite adamant that they should stay on.维罗妮卡坚信他们必须继续留下去。

6 licensing   

v.批准，许可，颁发执照( license的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• A large part of state regulation consists of occupational licensing. 大部分州的管理涉及行业的特许批准。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法
• That licensing procedures for projects would move faster. 这样的工程批准程序一定会加快。 来自辞典例句

7 thoroughly   

adv.完全地，彻底地，十足地

参考例句：

• The soil must be thoroughly turned over before planting.一定要先把土地深翻一遍再下种。
• The soldiers have been thoroughly instructed in the care of their weapons.士兵们都系统地接受过保护武器的训练。