CNN互動英語 04月號/2020 第235期

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對抗新型冠狀病毒  全球防疫大作戰！
An Overview of the Coronavirus and the Measures Taken to Avoid an Epidemic

ROBYN CURNOW, CNN ANCHOR
So, scientists are trying to figure out just how quickly this virus is spreading. Of course, we’ve heard from Xi Jinping that it’s accelerating, but how dangerous is it as well? Sanjay Gupta explains for us. Sanjay.

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT
One of the questions we get often is: how similar is this to SARS? And it’s worth pointing out that this is the same family of viruses—this new virus and the SARS virus. You can take a look at it, there. That’s the coronavirus. It’s named that because corona is crown, and you can see that has a crown.

What we know is that some time in December, the virus started spreading from animals to humans. We knew that that was happening, and then we also learned that it was spreading [from] human to human—that’s what really got the public health’s [health] communities’ attention on this. And what we now know is that this is spreading [from] human to human, fourth generation, which is exactly what it sounds like—someone spreads it to someone else, they spread it to several more people, and so on and so on. And that’s where the spread and the concern about this becoming more widespread really comes from.

CNN主播  蘿蘋．柯諾
科學家正致力於了解這個病毒傳播得究竟有多快。當然，我們聽到了習近平指稱病毒的散播正在加速，但是這個病毒有多危險呢？桑杰．古普塔要為我們說明。桑杰。

CNN特派員  桑杰．古普塔醫師
我們經常聽到的其中一個問題是，這和SARS的相似度有多高？值得指出的是，這是屬於同一個家族的病毒——這種新病毒和SARS病毒。各位可以看一下這個病毒，那邊。那就是冠狀病毒。會取那個名字是因為冠就是頭冠，各位可以看到它有王冠狀的東西。

我們知道的是，在十二月的某個時候，這種病毒開始從動物傳播到人類身上。我們知道那樣的情形發生了，接著我們又得知這種病毒也開始人傳人——那才真正引起了公衛社群對這件事的關注。而我們現在知道的是，這種病毒已經出現了人傳人的第四代感染，意思正是字面上聽起來那樣——某個人把這種病毒傳給別人，那些人再把病毒傳給更多人，一傳十、十傳百。病毒的傳播以及對於疫情更加氾濫的憂慮就是那麼來的。

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