Bird Flu Victims in China
中國的禽流感受害案例
本則英語影音新聞及出處：新唐人電視台英語新聞
【新聞關鍵字】
1.bird flu n. 禽流感
2.victim n. 受害者
3.diagnose v. 診斷
4.infected: adj. 受感染的
5.authority n. 官方; 當局
6.poultry n. 家禽
7.backyard adj. 後院的、私人的
And in China there are reports of two new cases of bird flu and one death from the virus.
最近在中國發現了兩件新的禽流感案例，其中一人死於病毒。
A 27-year-old woman, from Jinan, the capital of Shandong province, died on Saturday January the 17th. She had fallen ill 12 days earlier.
一名二十七歲，來自山東省會濟南的女士，在一月十七日星期六死亡。她早在十二天以前便已病倒。
And a two-year-old girl was found ill in central Hunan province and later diagnosed with bird flu at a hospital in Shanxi.
另外，在湖南省中部一名兩歲女孩生病，之後在山西的醫院被診斷出感染禽流感。
There were no details on how the child became infected.
對於這名小孩如何被感染並無詳情報導。
Health authorities say earlier this month a woman infected with bird flu had died in Beijing. She had brought ducks at a market in Hebei province.
衛生當局表示，本月初，一名感染禽流感的女士已在北京病故。她曾在河北省的市場上攜帶鴨子。
China has the world’s biggest poultry population and hundreds of millions of backyard birds.
中國有全世界最大的家禽數，並有成千上萬的私家饌養的禽鳥。
The latest infections bring China’s total to 33 human bird flu cases, of which at least 22 have died.
最新的感染讓中國的人畜感染案例總計達到三十三件，其中至少有二十二人死亡。
作者：Daniel Chen
