美国有线新闻 CNN 2014-03-29

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Malaysian government made a tragic¹ announcement yesterday: all lives are lost. It’s ending many peoples’ hopes that there could have been any survivors² aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished more than two weeks ago. Grieving families expressed everything from anguish³ to doubt to anger. One woman left the news briefing asking where is the proof. Malaysia says information from a British satellite company and Accier investigators⁴ indicate that plane crashed somewhere in the Southern Indian Ocean. As of last night, no parts of it had been recovered, though international planes and ships were combing the region. One main search area is about 1500 miles west of Perse, Australia. So, victims’ families will be given the opportunity to travel there … when the wreckage⁵ is recovered.

 

Our next story today concerns ebola, a very deadly virus that was first identified in 1976. It causes hemorrhagic fever. Symptoms are external and internal bleeding and organ failure. Most outbreaks including the most recent in Guinea had been in Africa. But because it spreads easily through contact with body fluids, officials are taking no chances. Ebola seen here under the microscope. It is one of the most highly contagious⁶ and deadly viruses known to man. The name alone elicits⁷ fear and brings summand images of doctors in hazma suits. Now, people in Guinea are battling the West African countries first ever outbreak of the disease. …We immediately sent samples to two laboratories specializing in tropical disease. The health ministry⁸ waited for the laboratory to determine the nature of the virus involved, and then we got confirmation⁹. It was ebola.The virus has killed dozens of people in the southern region of the country. And there are fears ebola may now spread to the capital of Camkrade. Listening to the news and to see the effects of what is happening in the force. It’s true that a mysterious fever is striking people. It’s scaring us. I’m scared. I’m scared because it affects

me. Government officials say samples from several suspected cases in the capital have tested negative for the virus. But doctors without borders is proactively flying in tons of medical aid and equipment to fight the epidemic¹⁰. In Canakry, there is an alarming situation and a little panic. In other places, they are a bit more used to it where it’s epidemic. That’s not easy either, because people are afraid of this epidemic because it’s very deadly. But at least they are a bit used to it. There have been … incidents of ebola … in African countries in recent years, but with the fatality¹¹ rate of up to 90 percent, and no known cure, there’s concern that in Guinea, a poor country with a weak medical infrastructure¹², a widespread ebola outbreak could be devastating¹³. 

 

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