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一、 WHO：寨卡病毒肆虐南美 Birth defect virus spreads in South America △birth defect 先天性缺陷 The fast-spreading Zika virus, which is believed to cause birth defects, has already reached 21 countries in Central and South America, the World Health Organisation warned yesterday. △ 扩 蚊虫传播的mosquito-borne 因为昨天在BBC看见了 世界卫生组织(WHO)昨日警告称，据信导致出生缺陷的寨卡病毒（Zika virus，又译兹卡病毒）快速传播，已波及中美洲和南美洲21个国家。 The virus is likely to affect the entire western hemisphere, apart from frost-prone易降霜，易霜冻 regions that are too cold to support the mosquitoes that transmit the disease. △ prone 与形容词结合的复合词 -prone combines with nouns to make adjectives that describe people who are frequently affected by something bad. 易受…影响的 (与名词结合构成形容词) 例：...the most injury-prone rider on the circuit. …赛车道上最容易受伤的车手。 扩 war-prone areas易爆发战争的地区 error-prone易于出错的 这种病毒很可能影响整个西半球——只有气候寒冷、不适于传播疾病的蚊子存活的霜冻高发地区除外。 Margaret Chan, WHO director-general,n. 总干事；理事长；署长 described the “explosive spread”爆炸式传播 of Zika as “extremely worrying”. Virologists病毒学家 say the virus infects the brain in the growing foetus, causing microcephaly — babies born with a very small head and associated neurological神经的 problems — although the causal link has not yet been proved. △virologist 是virology的变形 n.病毒学 foetus [fi:t?s]n. = fetus 胎儿 复数→n. foetuses △microcephaly /?ma?kr???s?f?l?/小头畸形 △causal link 因果关系，因果联系 Although a great deal of studies has been done for casual link between energy consumption and economic growth, few results are available for causality between total resource use and aggregate output. 目前国内外研究主要集中于探讨能源消费与经济增长之间因果关系，而未有对区域资源总体消费与经济产出二者关系开展实证研究。 世卫组织总干事陈冯富珍(Margaret Chan)形容“爆炸式传播”的寨卡病毒“极其令人担忧”。病毒学家们表示，这种病毒会感染成长中的胎儿的大脑，引起小头畸形——婴儿出生时头部异常小，还有相关神经问题——尽管这种因果关系尚未得到证实。 In Brazil, the worst affected country, Zika has triggered an “epidemic of microcephaly, a public health emergency”, said Laura Rodrigues, a Brazilian professor of infectious disease epidemiology at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine who is investigating the outbreak. △epidemic [,?p