H10N8中国发现新型禽流感病毒_BEC初级作文

H10N8中国发现新型禽流感病毒

西方专家表示，尽管出现又一种能够杀死人的禽流感病毒令人担忧，但他们更担心去年春天在中国出现的H7N9病毒。

The World Health Organisation is reporting five to 10 new cases daily of H7N9, although “so far there is no evidence of sustained human-to-human transmission,” it says. Sustained transmission between people could lead to a new flu pandemic.

世界卫生组织(WHO)目前每天报告5至10个H7N9新病例，尽管该组织表示，“迄今没有持续人传人的证据”。人与人之间持续传播可能导致一场新的流感疫情。

“It is not clear how serious H10N8 would be in a young healthy person,” said Wendy Barclay, professor of influenza virology at Imperial College London. “The [genetic] sequence details given in the paper are quite reassuring: there is no obvious clue that the virus is specially adapted to humans.”

“尚不清楚H10N8如果进入健康的年轻人体内会有多严重，”伦敦帝国学院(Imperial College London)流感病毒学教授温迪•巴克利(Wendy Barclay)表示。“文中给出的（遗传）序列细节相当令人宽慰：没有明显的线索表明，病毒已出现专门针对人类的变化。”

Jeremy Farrar, flu expert and director of the Wellcome Trust, pointed out that the world has become much better recently at surveillance and at sharing information on emerging infections. “It is highly unlikely this event would even have been noticed or reported just a few years ago,” he said.