CNN News:流行病傳播

What word describes something that’s widespread over a continent or the world?

下面哪個詞語是用來描述某事物流行于大陸或世界?

Epidemic, pandemic, polemic or epistemic?

Epidemic, pandemic, polemic or epistemic

When something like a disease is pandemic, it spread over a very large area and affects many people.

pandemic這個詞，是用來疾病傳播了一大片地區(qū)，影響了很多人。

AZUZ: When it comes to potential disease pandemics, a public health expert says we’re only as secure as the world’s weakest country and there are a lot of countries with relatively weak health systems and economies.

當涉及到大規(guī)模的流行病，公共衛(wèi)生專家表示，我們的安全度和世界上最弱的國家是一樣的，同時世界上有很多國家經濟薄弱，安全系統(tǒng)脆弱。

Following the Ebola outbreak of 2014, the international spread of the Zika virus, and the global circulation of other diseases like swine flu and SARS, experts are warning that civilians and health officials need to be prepared for another outbreak. Of what? They don’t know yet.

2014年埃博拉病毒爆發(fā)，此外還有Zika病毒的國際傳播以及其他全球性流行病，如豬流感和SARS等。專家警告稱，平民和衛(wèi)生官員要為疾病再次爆發(fā)做準備。至于什么疾病呢?他們也不知道。

But they’re concerned for several reasons: one, the world’s population is growing and so is the number of people who live close to each other in cities. Two, people are traveling more each year. That can circulate problems to other countries. Three, many nations were disease outbreaks are likely are poor and they have fewer doctors and nurses to treat the population.

但是他們擔憂有以下幾個原因：一，世界人口正在增長，同時，城市的人口也在增長。二，每年旅行的人增多。這會將疾病問題帶到其他的國家。第三，疾病爆發(fā)的一些國家，可能比較貧窮，同時治療疾病的醫(yī)護人員數(shù)量比較少。

Of course, there are many other factors like the years it takes to develop vaccines. But there are also plans forming worldwide to take on diseases when they start to spread.

當然，還有其他的因素，比如，研發(fā)疫苗的期限。但是，當疾病開始傳播時，全球會有各種應對計劃。