英伦广角 埃博拉疫情防御计划

 

“Classic public health, isolation¹ and respect and dignity for the people infected, and respect and dignity if individuals do die that they’re buried in appropriate manner, is absolutely critical to bringing this epidemic² under control.”

“传统的公共卫生措施、隔离、尊重被感染的人,并且如果个人确因感染病毒而死，要尊重他能够以适当的方式被埋葬,对控制这种流行病是至关重要的。”

Jeremy Farrar is an emerging infectious disease expert and the director of the Wellcome Trust, a global charitable health foundation. He talked about the current Ebola epidemic in west Africa during a conference call webcast produced by the New England Journal of Medicine on October 22nd.

杰里米·法勒是一位新兴传染病专家及全球慈善健康基金会——威康信托基金会主任。他在10月22日《新英格兰医学杂志》举办的网络直播电话会议上谈到了当前西非的埃博拉疫情。

“The society where these epidemics³ are occurring are ultimately going to be critical to bringing the epidemic under control.

这些发生疫情的国家最终会是控制疫情的关键。

“I believe in the 21st century, the classic public health measures that are critical can be complemented⁴ by the addition of rapid diagnostics; by the development of vaccines⁵, assessment⁶ of safety and efficacy and then deployment⁷; and by the development of drugs. The drugs themselves may not change the epidemic curve, but they may change the relationship the health care facilities and workers have with the community.

我相信在21世纪,新增的快速诊断方法、疫苗的发展、安全性和有效性的评估、资源配置以及药物的研发均可补充那些至关重要的传统公共卫生措施。药物本身可能不会改变传染曲线，但它可能改变卫生保健机构和劳动者与社会之间的关系。

“If you offer hope to a previously⁸ untreated infection, you will change the way that people present, you will remove some of the stigma⁹ and you will be able to demonstrate that people can survive from Ebola. And I believe that is absolutely critical. Being a young doctor during the early stages of HIV in western Europe, it was amazing the change that occurred both in lives, but also in attitudes toward HIV, when we developed antiretroviral drugs.”

如果你给予先前不治疫情以希望，你将改变人们的生活状态，将消除一些阴影，您将能够证明人们可以逃过埃博拉疫情生存下去。我相信这一点毫无疑问至关重要。西欧艾滋病毒早期阶段，我还是一名年轻医生。当我们研发出抗艾滋病毒药物时，人们生活的变化，人们对艾滋病态度的转变都十分令我惊讶。

1 isolation   

n.隔离，孤立，分解，分离

参考例句：

• The millionaire lived in complete isolation from the outside world.这位富翁过着与世隔绝的生活。
• He retired and lived in relative isolation.他退休后，生活比较孤寂。

2 epidemic   

n.流行病；盛行；adj.流行性的，流传极广的

参考例句：

• That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.那种传染病早已绝迹。
• The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.当局试图把流行病限制在局部范围。

3 epidemics   

n．流行病

参考例句：

• Reliance upon natural epidemics may be both time-consuming and misleading. 依靠天然的流行既浪费时间，又会引入歧途。
• The antibiotic epidemics usually start stop when the summer rainy season begins. 传染病通常会在夏天的雨季停止传播。

4 complemented   

有补助物的，有余格的

参考例句：

• The excellent menu is complemented by a good wine list. 佳肴佐以美酒，可称完美无缺。
• In vitro analysis must be complemented by studies of the virus replication cycle in plants. 体外的分析必须辅之以植物体内病毒复制周期的研究。

5 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。

6 assessment   

n.评价；评估；对财产的估价，被估定的金额

参考例句：

• This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
• What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何？

7 deployment   

n. 部署,展开

参考例句：

• He has inquired out the deployment of the enemy troops. 他已查出敌军的兵力部署情况。
• Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used customer-driven quality, design and manufacturing management tool. 质量功能展开(quality function deployment,QFD)是一个广泛应用的顾客需求驱动的设计、制造和质量管理工具。

8 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。

9 stigma   

n.耻辱，污名；(花的)柱头

参考例句：

• Being an unmarried mother used to carry a social stigma.做未婚母亲在社会上曾是不光彩的事。
• The stigma of losing weighed heavily on the team.失败的耻辱让整个队伍压力沉重。