doe【热点英语】双语新闻学英语：《致命病毒——流感感染2600万美国人》

9

月

29

日开始的

2019-2020

年流感季节将是十年来最严重的流感季节之一。

至少有

< br>25

万人因流感并

发症住院，而且随着流感活动的波动预 计这个数字还会攀升。

Even

the

low-end

estimate

of

deaths

each

year

is

startling.

The

Centers

for

Disease

Control

predicts

at

least

12,000

people

will

die from the flu in the US every year. In the 2017-2018 flu season,

as many as 61,000 people died, and 45 million were sickened.

即使保守 估计，每年的死亡数字也令人吃惊。疾病控制中心预测，美国

每年将至少有

12,000

人死于流感。在

2017-2018< /p>

年流感季节，多达

61,000

人死亡，

4,500

万人患病。

In the 2019-2020 season so far, at least 26 million people in the

US have gotten the flu and at least 14,000 people have died from

it, including at least 92 children. Flu activity has been widespread

in nearly every region, with high levels of activity in 48 states and

Puerto Rico, the CDC reported this week.

截至

2019-202 0

流感季节，美国至少有

2600

万人 感染了流感，至少有

14,000

人死于流感，其中包括至少< /p>

92

名儿童。美国疾病控制和预防中

心本 周报告说，

流感活动几乎在每个地区都在蔓延，

其中

个州和波多

黎各的活动水平很高。

The flu can be fatal

流感可能致命

Dr. Nathan Chomilo, an adjunct assistant professor of pediatrics

at

University

of

Minnesota

Medical

School,

said

that

the

commonness of the flu often underplays its severity, but people

should take it seriously.

< /p>

明尼苏达大学医学院儿科副教授内森·乔米洛博士说，流感具有共性，其

< br>严重性通常被低估，但人们应该认真对待。

The

flu

becomes

dangerous

when

secondary

infections

emerge,

the result of an already weakened immune system. Bacterial and

viral

infections

compound

the

flu's

symptoms.

People

with

chronic

illnesses

are

also

at

a

heightened

risk

for

flu

complications.

流 感在继发感染出现后会变得危险，其原因是免疫系统已经减弱。细菌

和病毒感染使流感的 症状复杂化。慢性病患者患流感并发症的风险也会

升高。

Those

complications

include

pneumonia,

inflammation

in

the

heart and brain and organ failure -- which, in some cases, can be

fatal.

这些 并发症包括肺炎、心脏和大脑炎症以及器官衰竭，在某些情况下，

可能是致命的。

?

The virus is always changing

病毒总是在变化

Influenza

is

tricky

because

the

virus

changes

every

year.

Sometimes,

the

dominant

strain

in

a

flu

season

will

be

more

virulent than in previous years, which can impact the number of

people infected and the severity of their symptoms.

流感非常棘手，因为病毒 每年都在变化。有时候，流感季节的主要菌株

比往年更具毒性，这可能会影响感染人数及 其症状的严重程度。

Most of these changes in the virus are small and insignificant, a

process

called

antigenic

drift.

That

year's

flu

vaccine

is

mostly

effective in protecting patients in spite of these small changes.

< br>病毒中的大多数变化是微小而微不足道的，即称为抗原漂移的过程。尽

管会这些微 小的变化，当年的流感疫苗对保护患者的作用大多都有效。

Occasionally,

the

flu

undergoes

a

rare

antigenic

shift,

which

results when a completely new strain of virus emerges that human

bodies haven't experienced before.

偶尔，流感会经 历罕见的抗原转移，即在一种全新的人体从未经历过的

病毒株出现时产生。

This

flu

season,

there's

no

sign

of

antigenic

shift,

the

most

extreme change. But it's happened before, most

recently in 2009

with the H1N1 virus. It became a pandemic because people had

no immunity against it, the CDC reported.