SARS相關詞彙解釋

重症急性呼吸綜合徵(SARS)爲一種由SARS冠狀病毒(SARS-CoV)引起的急性呼吸道傳染病，世界衛生組織(WHO)將其命名爲重症急性呼吸綜合徵。接下來小編爲大家整理了SARS相關詞彙解釋，希望對你有幫助哦!

　　cross-infection 交叉感染

The US Centre for Disease Control said they had come closer to proving that a new virus from the coronavirus family (冠狀科病毒) causes SARS and that residents would be liable to cross-infection. - CHINA DAILY

　　SARS-affected area 疫區

Singapore, where nine people have died of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - a formal name for atypical pneumonia), announced that foreign workers and professionals from SARS-affected areas would be quarantined for 10 days before being allowed to work in the city-state. - AFP

　　fecal-oral transmission 口糞傳播

The Hong Kong medical team now adds one more possibility - fecal-oral transmission, since the virus may be shed in the feces. Many viruses and bacteria are spread in this way. - REUTERS

　　isolation wards 隔離病房

"Some SARS cases are not even being placed in isolation wards and the possibility of cross infection is very great," said Henry Yeung of the Hong Kong Doctors Union. - REUTERS

　　forced quarantine 強制隔離

President Bush issued an executive order on Friday allowing the forced quarantine of patients with a mysterious new illness that has killed 80 people. - AP

　　communicable disease/ infectious disease 傳染病

While the federal government has some authority to control the movement of people to stop the spread of communicable diseases, it generally has let the states handle that task, legal experts say. - USA TODAY

　　(place somebody, be) under quarantine / released from quarantine 被隔離/被解除隔離

China took steps to contain the SARS outbreak in the capital, placing close to 16,000 people under quarantine as further deaths were recorded in Asia. - AFP

　　SARS-designated hospitals 定點醫院

Beijing says that dozens of entire buildings in the capital are under quarantine, including SARS-designated hospitals. - AP

　　suspected SARS case/ diagnosed SARS case 疑似病例/診斷病例

Health officials in Taiwan announced last Thursday that there is now one new additional suspected SARS case on the island. 　　

droplet transmission 飛沫傳播

Hong Kong doctors said that face masks were essential protection against SARS, but paper ones should be avoided because they would be vulnerable to droplet transmission of the virus.

　　panic-buying 恐慌購物

Authorities closed two hospitals and put patients and 2,000 workers under observation for the SARS virus, while across the city Thursday, anxious residents emptied grocery stores of rice, oil and frozen food in a bout of panic-buying. - AP

　　incubation/ outbreak period 潛伏期/爆發期

Vietnam is the only affected country with a new case after passing 20 days - twice the SARS incubation period. - AFP

　　fever clinic 發燒門診

According to Xinhua, the Beijing government has shut 60 of the 123 fever clinics attached to hospitals and other health care facilities in the past few days. Fever clinics are areas in hospitals and emergency wards where patients with a fever are first diagnosed. - AFP

　　epidemic surveillance system 疫情監測系統

Premier Wen Jiabao has warned that China's fragile rural health system will not be able to cope with a SARS outbreak. The basic rural medical facilities there are weak, technical capabilities are not adequate (and) the epidemic surveillance system is not sound. - REUTERS

　　super spreader 超級感染者

Evidence surfaced of super spreaders who were responsible for single-handedly infecting dozens of people, often in many locations and with a stunning swiftness made possible by air travel. - REUTERS