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<< review queue entry 57481 - submitted by 'richwarm' >> 曾焰也親身見識到草藥的療效。那是在文革前，大陸各地肝炎大流行，曾焰的媽媽也染病了，十幾歲的曾焰眼見爸爸自己調配草藥方劑：側柏葉、天胡荽，加上龍膽草為媽媽治病。 Zeng has personal experience with the effectiveness of herbal medicine. During the Cultural Revolution, when there was a hepatitis epidemic in mainland China, her mother came down with it, and the teenage Zeng saw her father mix the leaves of oriental arborvitae with gentian and other herbs to treat her mother. 遺址中也發現集體埋葬的墓地，遺體四肢有些還有所殘缺，總數將近兩百具。可能是與外族爭戰，或有天災及疫癘的大流行所造成。 In the ruins they also found a mass grave, with a total of 200 remains, some of which had been mutilated. This might have been a result of war with an outside tribe, a natural disaster, or an epidemic. 「歷年來幾次傳染病大流行，都沒有今年腸病毒來得亂，」 "In all the major epidemics in the past, things never got so chaotic as during this year's enterovirus outbreak," 就像流行感冒病毒，大約每隔十年就會改變結構，使人類的免疫力束手無策，再來一次大流行。 For instance, a major new mutation of the influenza virus appears about once every ten years. These bypass the resistance people have to previous strains, leading to major new epidemics. 所幸瘧蚊在西歐的天候條件下無法繁殖生存，頂多只在機場附近造成幾個病例，不至於大流行。 Fortunately, the climate in Western Europe is not suitable for the mosquitoes to breed, so they only cause a few infections near airports, not major epidemics. 多數學者專家認為，在人口密集的台灣，最可能造成大流行，而且較難以防治的還是最普遍的肺結核、流行性感冒等呼吸道傳染病。 Most experts take the view that in densely populated Taiwan, the diseases most likely to cause large epidemics, and those most difficult to prevent, are still the common respiratory tract infections such as tuberculosis and influenza. 流行性感冒是一種急性呼吸道傳染病，過去一百年來曾發生過四次世界性大流行，造成許多免疫力較差的老人及幼童因併發症而導致死亡。以一九一八年肆虐的流行性感冒為例，那次大流行在世界各地奪走了二千萬人的性命。 Influenza is an acute disease of the respiratory tract. Four global epidemics over the last century have caused many deaths from complications among people with weak immunity, such as old people and young children. For example, the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic claimed 20 million lives around the world. 是Ａ型肝炎大流行的溫床 the potential conditions for major epidemics of hepatitis A |
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+ 大流行 大流行 [da4 liu2 xing2] /major epidemic/pandemic/ |