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The Race for Containment
對抗新型冠狀病毒  全球防疫大作戰！
An Overview of the Coronavirus and the Measures Taken to Avoid an Epidemic

ROBYN CURNOW, CNN ANCHOR
So, scientists are trying to figure out just how quickly this virus is spreading. Of course, we’ve heard from Xi Jinping that it’s accelerating, but how dangerous is it as well? Sanjay Gupta explains for us. Sanjay.
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT
One of the questions we get often is: how similar is this to SARS? And it’s worth pointing out that this is the same family of viruses—this new virus and the SARS virus. You can take a look at it, there. That’s the coronavirus. It’s named that because corona is crown, and you can see that has a crown.
What we know is that some time in December, the virus started spreading from animals to humans. We knew that that was happening, and then we also learned that it was spreading [from] human to human—that’s what really got the public health’s [health] communities’ attention on this. And what we now know is that this is spreading [from] human to human, fourth generation, which is exactly what it sounds like—someone spreads it to someone else, they spread it to several more people, and so on and so on. And that’s where the spread and the concern about this becoming more widespread really comes from.
Now, when you look at a pathogen like this … take a quick look at this box … there’s [there are] two things that matter, really: how quickly it spreads—what I was just talking about—and then, how deadly it is.
If it’s not that deadly [and] doesn’t spread that much, that would put you in the A box. The concern is … the worst-case scenario is that this goes into the D box, there—highly transmissible and highly lethal as well.
As far as the containment efforts, I mean, it’s chaos, as you’ve probably seen now in … at least in this area—around Wuhan. Tens of millions of people who are on lockdown—meaning they’re not allowing vehicles in or vehicles to go out. This is a … it’s a very strong policy; it’s an aggressive policy; it’s typically a policy that is done later in stages of an outbreak as opposed to this early. And it’s unclear whether China’s just being very aggressive or whether they are dealing with data that we are not yet familiar with because it is an aggressive policy over there.
They’re also recommending everyone wear masks, for example, in Wuhan. And just a quick tidbit, I’ll tell you. The masks, as you might imagine, are not going to stop viral particles from getting into your nose and your mouth. They can get through the mask or around the mask. What they really do more than anything else, as I’ve seen covering these stories, is that they prevent you from touching your nose and your mouth, which is also one of the most common ways this virus is transmitted.

CNN主播  蘿蘋．柯諾
科學家正致力於了解這個病毒傳播得究竟有多快。當然，我們聽到了習近平指稱病毒的散播正在加速，但是這個病毒有多危險呢？桑杰．古普塔要為我們說明。桑杰。
CNN特派員  桑杰．古普塔醫師
我們經常聽到的其中一個問題是，這和SARS的相似度有多高？值得指出的是，這是屬於同一個家族的病毒——這種新病毒和SARS病毒。各位可以看一下這個病毒，那邊。那就是冠狀病毒。會取那個名字是因為冠就是頭冠，各位可以看到它有王冠狀的東西。
我們知道的是，在十二月的某個時候，這種病毒開始從動物傳播到人類身上。我們知道那樣的情形發生了，接著我們又得知這種病毒也開始人傳人——那才真正引起了公衛社群對這件事的關注。而我們現在知道的是，這種病毒已經出現了人傳人的第四代感染，意思正是字面上聽起來那樣——某個人把這種病毒傳給別人，那些人再把病毒傳給更多人，一傳十、十傳百。病毒的傳播以及對於疫情更加氾濫的憂慮就是那麼來的。
觀察像這樣的病原體的時候……快速看一下這個格子……真正重要的是兩件事：傳播的速度有多快——就是我剛剛所談的，接著是致命程度有多高。
如果致命性沒那麼高，傳播力也沒那麼強，就會歸在A這一格。令人擔憂的是……最糟的情況就是這種病毒屬於D這一格，那邊——傳播性高，而且致死率也高。
至於防堵工作，實在是一團亂，就像各位現在可能已經看到的，在……至少在這個區域——在武漢周圍是。數千萬人遭到封鎖，意思是他們不允許車輛進出。這是一種……這是一種非常強硬的政策、是一種激烈的政策；通常是在疫情爆發比較後期的階段才會出此下策，而不是這麼早。不清楚中國究竟只是作風很積極，還是說他們面對的是我們還不曉得的數據，因為那裡的政策確實很激烈。
比如說，他們也建議所有在武漢的人戴上口罩。我要告訴各位一項小知識。各位可想而知，口罩是無法阻止病毒粒子進入你的口鼻的。它們可以穿越口罩或從口罩邊緣進入。我在報導這些新聞時觀察到，口罩真正的效果莫過於避免你觸摸自己的鼻子和嘴巴，這也是這種病毒最常見的一種傳播途徑。

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專題報導
Global Epidemic
新型冠狀病毒肆虐！世衛列為國際公衛緊急事件
WHO Declares Coronavirus a Global Health Emergency as Virus Continues to Spread
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專題報導
The Race for Containment
對抗新型冠狀病毒  全球防疫大作戰！
An Overview of Coronavirus and the Measures Taken to Avoid an Epidemic
導致此波疫情的是可人傳人、高變異性的新型冠狀病毒。面對前所未見的病毒，科學家加緊研究腳步，盼釐清病毒特性，早日找出預防及治療的方式。

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與生俱來的極速基因──保時捷
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生活
Creepy-Crawly Cuisine
昆蟲料理  環保又營養的替代糧食
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糧食短缺問題日益嚴重，富含各種營養素的昆蟲成為新興的替代糧食，不過要如何克服消費者的心理障礙，就是讓業者和大廚頭痛的課題了。

社會
Capital Defense
倫敦的保命屏障──泰晤士河防洪閘
Floods Caused by Sea Level Rise Could Devastate London
30多年來守護倫敦不受水患侵襲的泰晤士河防洪閘在氣候變遷衝擊下逐漸不敷使用，急需更大型、更先進的防洪措施取代。

旅遊
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登上哈里發塔  美景盡收眼前
Exploring the Sights and Sounds of Downtown Dubai
全球最高建築哈里發塔吸引無數旅客前來朝聖，無論是在塔上鳥瞰阿拉伯灣，或是在地面上瞻仰這座摩天大樓，都是絕無僅有的視覺饗宴。

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