river blindness

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• n.盤尾絲蟲病
• 網(wǎng)絡河盲癥；河川盲；盲眼性絲蟲病

英漢雙解

英漢解釋

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1. 河盲癥

例句

The campaign to eliminate river blindness began as the most vertical programme imaginable: helicopters dropping insecticides out of the sky.

根除河盲癥運動開始時是可以想象的最縱向的規(guī)劃：直升飛機從空中投撒殺蟲劑。

REPORTER B: River blindness can be prevented with drugs and by killing off the blackfly.

記者B：盡管通過藥物以及捕殺黑蠅的方法能夠預防河盲的傳播，許多家庭仍然決定一起遷離河邊。

REPORTER A: River blindness is caused by a parasitic worm that lived under the surface of the skin.

記者A：河盲是由一種生長于皮膚表皮下的寄生蟲引起的疾病。

Another one is called trachoma, or river blindness.

另外一種疾病是沙眼，也叫做河盲。

The current treatment for river blindness is the drug ivermectin, which kills larval parasites but not the adult worms.

目前治療盤尾絲蟲病的手段是使用一種叫做伊維菌素（ivermectin）的藥物，它殺死幼蟲，但是對成蟲無效。

River blindness (onchocerciasis) has been eliminated as a public health problem.

河盲癥（盤尾絲蟲病）作為一公共衛(wèi)生問題現(xiàn)已被消滅。

But before we talk more about it for today's health check health minute, here's everything you need to know about river blindness.

在我們進行今天的《健康咨詢》節(jié)目之前，讓我們來了解一下有關河盲的知識。

The father is blind, from a disease called river blindness, which is transmitted by black flies, and cannot cultivate the fields.

他們的父親得了一種叫做“河盲”的病（又叫盤尾絲蟲病，由黑蠅傳播），雙目失明，沒法下地。

But in some places, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, families have moved away from rivers because they fear catching river blindness.

然而在某些地方，尤其是撒哈拉南部非洲的周邊地區(qū)，因為害怕患上河盲，人們遷至遠離河流的地方。

dramatically reduced the scourge of river blindness (onchocerciasis);

大大減輕了河盲癥（盤尾絲蟲病）禍害；