2016年CRI Imported Zika Cases in China Rise to Five

 

The two new cases involve a 38-year-old man and his eight-year-old son from Yiwu City in Zhejiang Province.

Xiong Huang with the National Health and Family Planning Commission has an update on all of the patients.

"Currently, a Zika patient in Jiangxi province has been discharged from hospital after a full recovery. Four other patients are being treated in local hospitals with standard treatments, and their conditions are now stable."

The two latest patients were bitten by mosquitoes while traveling in Fiji and Samoa.

So far all cases in China have been imported from other countries.

Noting that the virus may enter the country again, Li Dexin with Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention says that strong prevention measures must be taken.

"There are mainly three prevention measures. One is closely monitoring Entry-Exit Inspection¹ and Quarantine practices to detect patients and isolate² them. Two, disease prevention, especially monitoring its spreading agency: mosquito activity, whether they carry the virus. Three, if any epidemic³ should occur, measures will be taken to exterminate⁴ mosquitoes."

Scientists with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention have already decoded⁵ the genome of the country's first imported case of Zika.

This has greatly helped the understanding of the virus' variations.

Xiong huang warns the risk of spreading of the mosquito-borne disease is still high, as the temperature warms up.

"We will be on high alert as the weather warms up, some parts of the country will enter the active season of mosquito. Once import, the Zika virus has its chance to spread in the region. The National Health and Family Planning Commission will plan ahead to prevent and control the disease."

For CRI, I'm Min Rui.

1 inspection   

n.检查，审查，检阅

参考例句：

• On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查，发现肉变质了。
• The soldiers lined up for their daily inspection by their officers.士兵们列队接受军官的日常检阅。

2 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。

3 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。

4 exterminate   

v.扑灭，消灭，根绝

参考例句：

• Some people exterminate garden insects by spraying poison on the plants.有些人在植物上喷撒毒剂以杀死花园内的昆虫。
• Woodpeckers can exterminate insect pests hiding in trees.啄木鸟能消灭躲在树里的害虫。

5 decoded   

v.译（码），解（码）( decode的过去式和过去分词 )；分析及译解电子信号

参考例句：

• The control unit decoded the 18 bits. 控制器对这18位字进行了译码。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Scientists have decoded the dog genome. 科学家已经译解了狗的基因组。 来自辞典例句