New wave of swine flu expected early 2010
新一波豬流感疫情將在 2010 年初襲擊昆州
Queensland's Chief Health Officer Dr Jeanette Young says she expects the second wave of the swine flu pandemic to hit the state in February or March next year.
昆士蘭州的衛生局局長珍妮‧楊博士說，她預期明年二月或三月，第二波豬流感疫情將會襲擊昆州。
She told a medical conference on the Gold Coast today the disease caused a thousand deaths in the northern hemisphere last week but Australia's risk is lower because the population is much smaller.
她在今天於黃金海岸舉行的醫學會議上表示，上週豬流感在北半球造成上千人死亡；但因為澳洲人口稀少，因此風險較低。
She says a new vaccine offers safe, effective protection but only 10 per cent of Queenslanders have been immunised so far.
她說新的疫苗更安全、更有效；但目前只有 10% 的昆州居民接種疫苗。
"We know through a lot of extensive modelling that has been done that if we can get 40 per cent of the population immunised then we will significantly reduce the impact," Dr Young said.
「透過已經完成的密集模式分析，我們得知如果有 40% 的人接種疫苗，就可以顯著降低衝擊。」楊博士說。
"Otherwise we will see a very similar flu season to what we saw last year with about the same morbidity and the same admissions to hospitals and ICU."
「要不，我們就會看到跟去年疫情發生時類似的發病率，以及送醫院與送加護病房類似的入院比例。」
Source 資料來源: Yahoo! 7 News
單字 / 片語
admission: 入院；入學
extensive: 密集的
Gold Coast: 黃金海岸，位於澳洲昆士蘭州東南的著名觀光景點。
ICU (intensive care unit): 加護病房
immunise: 使...免疫（美：immunize）
morbidity: 發病率
northern hemisphere: 北半球
significantly: 顯著地
swine flu: 豬流感
vaccine: 疫苗
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