5月10日BBC聽力：德州存在蚊蟲流傳寨卡病毒危害
Zika virus may not be in the headlines as much as itwas a few months ago, but as summer approachesand people travel to and from the Olympics in Rio,it’s still causing real concern.
In Texas this year, 31 people have tested positive forthe Zika virus. Now the kind of mosquito thattransmits the Zika virus does exist here in Texas. So there is a chance that someone couldinfect the mosquitoes here and then there would be sort of Texas-originated Zika virus.
Certainly it’s a concern of ours. We know that we do have the type of mosquitoes that cantransmit Zika. And so our, you know, the thing that we are really watching now is to see oncewe get in the mosquito season, as the weather heats up, mosquitoes become more active. If wecontinue to see those kinds of imported cases you talked about, there is certainly a risk thatTexas mosquitoes could bite infected people and then be capable of transmitting the diseaseto other people.
Cuz I was reading, in the local newspaper just this morning on the front page that microcephalyrates tripled in Texas between 1999 and 2012. So do you understand why that’s happened?
We’ve not seen it here before the last, you know, four or five months.
Could we just go and look at the lab you got here, cuz you are trying to sort of increase yourcapacity to understand what’s happening in the States.
Yes, absolutely. So when it started, you know, we didn’t have the capability to do the testingin our lab here, but everything had to be sent to CDC in Colorado. And of course, they weredoing the testing for the entire nation. And so it took some time to get those result.
Right, cuz I was just looking through the glass windows that were in a door and inside there isa lab. And I can see a young woman that who was, I think, quite cautious of her work, by thelooks of it and sort of doing something inside the cabinet with her hands sticking into thecabinet. So it’s all about not getting infected and being cautious. As you look ahead and youknow what this has done in central America, south America, are you worried this problem isgoing to Texas?
You know, it’s certainly a question mark in this point. There’s still so much that we don’t knowabout Zika and the implications for pregnant women and their unborn children. What aboutwomen who are pregnant who may have been exposed but don’t get symptoms? Are theycapable of transmitting the virus and what are the effects on their unborn children?
So there’s still a lot of research to be done. But we are not taking any chances. We really wantpeople to protect themselves from mosquito bites particularly when they are traveling and afterthey’ve returned and again, to interrupt this transmission from person to mosquito to person.
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