139. 抗疫读英文---比尔盖茨演讲 5

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The failure to prepare could allow the next epidemic to be dramatically more devastating than Ebola. Let's look at the progression of Ebola over this year. About 10,000 people died, and nearly all were in the three West African countries. There's three reasons why it didn't spread more. The first is that there was a lot of heroic work by the health workers. They found the people and they prevented more infections. The second is the nature of the virus. Ebola does not spread through the air. And by the time you're contagious, most people are so sick that they're bedridden. Third, it didn't get into many urban areas. And that was just luck. If it had gotten into a lot more urban areas, the case numbers would have been much larger.

我们的准备不足，可能会导致下一场疫情，比埃博拉病毒的危害更严重。让我们看看埃博拉病毒在过去一年中的发展。大约死了一万人，所有的死者都在西非的三个国家里。之所以没有扩散的原因有三个。第一个是卫生工作人员作的很多英雄事迹。他们找到很多病人并防止了更多人得病。第二个是病毒的特性，埃博拉病毒不是靠空气传染的。等到你有足够的传染力时，大部分的人已经病得卧床不起了。第三个是因为病毒没有传到都会区。这纯粹是运气好。如果病毒传到了都会区，那么死亡的人数绝对不止于此。