美机场将测试埃博拉疫区乘客体温

2014-10-14 10:44:46来源：可可英语

　　The president's Republican critics were largely silent Wednesday after Mr. Duncan died and theadministration announced the airport screenings. It was unclear if the Republicans saw thetemperature checks as a sufficient response to the epidemic or if they did not want to beperceived as seeking political gain from Mr. Duncan's death.

　　在邓肯病逝以及政府宣布了机场的筛查措施之后，批评奥巴马的共和党人周三基本上保持了沉默。不知道这是因为共和党人认为用体温筛查来应对埃博拉已经足够，还是因为他们不愿意被视作利用邓肯的死亡捞取政治利益。

　　That Mr. Duncan was able to get from Liberia to Dallas as the disease surged out of control inWest Africa underscored the risk of spreading disease in a globalized world. An infectedLiberian-American, Patrick Sawyer, carried the disease to Nigeria, Africa's most populouscountry, on a flight for business. Mr. Duncan had come to the United States to reunite withfamily.

　　埃博拉在西非肆虐的同时，邓肯却能够从利比里亚来到达拉斯，这一事实突显了疾病在全球化的世界中蔓延的风险。感染埃博拉病毒的利比里亚裔美国公民帕特里克·索耶(Patrick Sawyer)在差旅过程中将病毒传播到了非洲人口最多的国家尼日利亚。邓肯来美国则是为了与家人团聚。

　　"We are a global village," said Howard Markel, a professor of the history of medicine at theUniversity of Michigan. "Germs have always traveled. The problem now is they can travel withthe speed of a jet plane."

　　“我们生活在一个地球村，”密歇根大学医学史教授霍华德·马克尔(Howard Markel)说。“病菌永远都在传播。现在的问题是，它如今可以用飞机的速度传播。”

　　The new requirement of temperature checks has broad implications for health departmentsacross the country.

　　新的体温检测措施将为全美的卫生部门带来广泛影响。

　　In a conference call with state and local officials Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Obama expressedconfidence in the procedures already in place to prevent the spread of Ebola, but urgedthem to be vigilant in the days and weeks ahead.

　　周三下午，在与州级和地方官员的电话会议上，奥巴马表示对目前实施的防止埃博拉病毒扩散的措施抱有信心，但同时敦促这些官员在接下来的时间里保持警惕。

　　"As we saw in Dallas, we don't have a lot of margin for error," Mr. Obama told the group,according to a transcript released by the White House. "If we don't follow protocols andprocedures that are put in place, then we're putting folks in our communities at risk."

　　“正如我们在达拉斯所看到的，我们没有多少犯错的余地，”根据白宫发布的文字记录，奥巴马对这些官员说。“如果我们不遵守现有的规章和程序，我们就是在把自己社区的民众置于危险之中。”

　　Experts cautioned that a temperature check on arrival would almost certainly not havedetected that Mr. Duncan had Ebola before he entered the country. The disease typicallyincubates for eight to 10 days before symptoms including fever develop.

　　一些专家提醒，即使在邓肯入境前对其进行体温测试，也几乎不可能察觉他感染了埃博拉病毒。这种病毒一般有8到10天的潜伏期，然后才会引起发热等症状。

　　American health officials believe Mr. Duncan did not have a fever when he arrived in the UnitedStates, a view seconded by his family. "There's a sense that this is a be-all-and-end-all and thatthis will put up an iron curtain, but it won't," said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor ofpreventive medicine at Vanderbilt University. "At the very most, all we are buying here issome reduction of anxiety." He added: "That's worth something because, at the moment, wehave a much larger outbreak of anxiety than we have of Ebola."

　　美国的卫生官员相信，邓肯在落地的时候并没有发热症状。他的家人也支持这一看法。“有人认为体温测试是一个万全之策，如同竖起了一道铜墙铁壁，但实际上并非如此，”范德堡大学(Vanderbilt University)预防医学教授威廉·沙夫纳博士(William Schaffner)说。“我们最多只能减少一些焦虑。”他接着说：“这种做法有一定价值，因为当前，我们的焦虑程度比埃博拉疫情本身要严重得多。”

　　The measures will go into effect on Saturday at Kennedy International Airport in New York. JFKreceives about 43 percent of the people who fly to the United States from Sierra Leone, Liberiaand Guinea. Next week, screenings will begin at Washington Dulles, which gets 22 percent ofsuch travelers, and at Newark Liberty International, O'Hare International in Chicago andHartsfield-Jackson International in Atlanta.

　　这些措施将于本周六在纽约的肯尼迪国际机场(Kennedy International Airport，简称JFK)开始实行。从塞拉利昂、利比里亚和几内亚飞往美国的乘客中，约43%在JFK抵达。接待22%的此类旅客的华盛顿杜勒斯机场(Dulles)，以及纽瓦克自由国际机场(Newark Liberty International)、芝加哥奥黑尔国际机场(O'HareInternational)和亚特兰大哈兹菲尔德-杰克逊国际机场(Hartsfield-Jackson International)也将于下周开始这一做法。

　　After a passport check, airport workers will lead travelers to a special area and point athermometer at their foreheads. The workers will also ask travelers questions. A fever can bea symptom of Ebola. Those who have a temperature will be taken to a quarantine area inthe airports and evaluated by an official from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Itwill be up to local health departments whether to place them in quarantine.

　　在护照检查后，机场工作人员会把乘客带到一个专门的区域，用体温仪对着他们的额头测量温度。工作人员还会询问他们一些问题。发烧可能是埃博拉的一个症状。因此，发热的乘客将会被带到机场的隔离区，接受美国疾病控制与预防中心(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention，简称CDC)的一名官员的评估。是否需要对旅客采取隔离措施则取决于当地卫生部门。

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