L8-读译联合国纪念日致辞2定稿.docVIP

联合国文稿读译--砖块积累练习： 6. World Health Days provide an opportunity to focus world attention on a health problem or issue that deserves special attention. Vector-borne diseases are one such problem. Holding these diseases at bay, and getting the upper hand, require multiple actions on multiple fronts. These are especially tenacious diseases that deliver a stern reminder of the dangers of complacency. The massive use of insecticides in the 1940s and 1950s successfully brought many important vector-borne diseases under control, including yellow fever and, in several areas, malaria. Complacency set in