美国国家卫生研究院(National Institutes of Health,简称“NIH”)称,流感吸引了人们所有的注意力,但普通感冒才是人们就医的首要原因。美国每年约有10亿人次得感冒,学生们因顽固的感冒病毒共停课2,200万天。专家们说,成年人每年平均患两到五次感冒,学龄儿童的感冒次数则多达七到10次。老年人感染病毒的次数往往较少,因为他们已经形成了对多种病毒的免疫力。与儿童生活在一起或者工作中与儿童接触的成年人感冒较多。
Experts say adults on average get two to five colds a year; school children can get as many as seven to 10. The elderly tend to get infected less because they've built up immunity to many viruses. And adults who live or work with young children come down with more colds.
对此我是深有体会。最近一个多月来,我们家似乎就在玩讨厌的感冒传递游戏。我的丈夫得了感冒,又持续咳嗽了几周时间,我们怀疑他又传染给了我们幼小的孩子。最后我也倒下了。
Don't I know it. For more than a month now my family seems to be playing a game of pass-the-nasty-cold. My husband had a cold and lingering cough for weeks, which we suspect he gave to our infant. Finally I succumbed.
我们认为我们上幼儿园的孩子是各种病菌的传播者。就在我们大家逐渐康复时,孩子开始上日托了,把某种病毒带回了家,于是我们全都开始了新一轮明显与第一次不同的感冒。
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