2006年VOA标准英语-Study Says New Malaria Drug Regimen Reduce

By Jessica Berman
Washington
23 February 2006
 

George Khoury, left, a pharmacy¹ owner shows different treatments for Malaria² for sale at his pharmacy in the city of Dakar, Senegal (File photo - Nov. 17, 20)  
  
Doctors in Senegal are reporting they have developed an effective way of protecting young children against malaria using antibiotics³. The strategy has to do with how often the drugs are given to the children during the malaria season.

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It is common in Senegal and other countries where malaria is endemic to give young children a small dose of antibiotics every day or week during malaria season to try to keep them from becoming ill.

Most of the one million people who die every year from the mosquito-borne illness are children living in Africa.

But the strategy using drugs as a prevention measure has backfired.

Physician Badara Cisse, who works in rural Senegal, says many children have become resistant⁴ to the antibiotics, because of overuse and misuse⁵. He says this happened with a popular drug used to treat malaria.

"That's why we lost chloroquine. And that was very sad for us losing chloroquine, because it was not expensive and it was very effective and not expensive," he noted⁶.

Cisse and colleagues developed a strategy they hoped would protect children, and prevent drug resistance.

In a study published in the February 25 issue of the medical journal, The Lancet, the authors say they gave 1,000 children under five in rural Senegal a full, two-drug combination of antibiotics once a month during malaria season, when the risk of infection and death is high.

Dr. Badara Cisse, one of the study authors, says this regimen worked.

"We reduced the number of clinical episodes of malaria by 86 percent by using such this approach for preventing malaria," he said.

However, Cisse says it will be some time before this prevention method can be put into practice in Senegal or anywhere else. Cisse says a much larger study must now be conducted to confirm that the regimen is effective.

1 pharmacy   

n.药房，药剂学，制药业，配药业，一批备用药品

参考例句：

• She works at the pharmacy.她在药房工作。
• Modern pharmacy has solved the problem of sleeplessness.现代制药学已经解决了失眠问题。

2 malaria   

n.疟疾

参考例句：

• He had frequent attacks of malaria.他常患疟疾。
• Malaria is a kind of serious malady.疟疾是一种严重的疾病。

3 antibiotics   

n.（用作复数）抗生素；（用作单数）抗生物质的研究；抗生素，抗菌素( antibiotic的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• the discovery of antibiotics in the 20th century 20世纪抗生素的发现
• The doctor gave me a prescription for antibiotics. 医生给我开了抗生素。

4 resistant   

adj.(to)抵抗的，有抵抗力的

参考例句：

• Many pests are resistant to the insecticide.许多害虫对这种杀虫剂有抵抗力。
• They imposed their government by force on the resistant population.他们以武力把自己的统治强加在持反抗态度的人民头上。

5 misuse   

n.误用，滥用；vt.误用，滥用

参考例句：

• It disturbs me profoundly that you so misuse your talents.你如此滥用自己的才能，使我深感不安。
• He was sacked for computer misuse.他因滥用计算机而被解雇了。

6 noted   

adj.著名的，知名的

参考例句：

• The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
• Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。