【个人手工制作】中学生VOA英语阅读之世界卫生组织在巴黎气候大会上呼吁公共卫生议程剖析.docx

中学生VOA英语阅读 之 世界卫生组织在巴黎气候大会上呼吁公共卫生议程 WHO Calls for Public Health Agenda at Paris Climate Talks In Paris negotiators are aiming for a call that causes for global emissions to avoid the most dramatic impacts of climate changes. 巴黎气候大会上，人们呼吁采取全球行动以抵御气候变化带来的巨大灾难。 World Health Organization senior scientist Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum says what’s good for the planet is good for public health. 世界卫生组织专家戴尔米德 表示，凡是对地球有益的举动，都会对人们的健康有益。 “The reason that we are so concerned about the effects of climate change on health [is]that many of the largest disease problems that we face are highly sensitive to climate conditions.These include diseases such as malaria, such as undernutrition, and such as waterborne diseases, diarrhea and other waterborne diseases.” 我们如此关注气候变化对健康的影响是因为许多常见疾病都与气候条件息息相关。如疟疾、营养不良、水传播疾病、痢疾以及其他传染疾病。 A warmer and wetter world threatens to make these problems worse.That’s exactly what’s happening with Dengue fever,a mosquito-borne viral infection that has put almost half of the world’s population at risk. 温暖潮湿的气候使得这些问题更加严峻，登革热就是其中之一。登革热是由蚊虫传播，世界上一半以上的人口都面临登革热的威胁。 Erwin Saucedo is a local health director in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.He says the extended rainy season in 2009 had workers scrambling to control the epidemic. 玻利维亚当地健康顾问欧文·绍塞多就职于圣克鲁兹市。他说2009年的雨季延长导致大量工人受感染，最终导致登革热爆发。 “We think the 30,000 reported cases could easily be double that,getting to more than 50,000 to 60,000 because of unreported cases where people have done self-treatment.” “受感染的真实数字可能是报道的一倍，至少会有5万至6万人，因为报道中并不涉及自我治疗的感染者。” Dengue fever remains a leading cause of hospitalization in Latin America and Asia. 在拉丁美洲和亚洲的众多国家中，登革热依然是住院的主要病因。 Rising temperatures also make air pollution worse.Especially for people who suffer from asthma, heart or lung disease. 气温升高导致空气污染更加严重。对哮喘、心脏病和肺病患者的危害尤为严重。 “If we continue to use highly polluting energy systems, we will either maintain or increase the seven million deaths that we suffer every year from air pollution.” “如果我们持续使用高污染能源系统，那么空气污染造成的每年700万死亡将无法改变”。