As health officials from New York to Mexico raced on Saturday to combat a rare and rapidly spread influenza virus, eight students at a Queens high school tested positive for a type of influenza that is probably swine flu and possibly the same strain that has killed as many as 68 people in Mexico City.
星期六从墨西哥到纽约的卫生部官员急忙行动起来与一种罕见却传播迅速的流感病毒进行战斗,原因是八名奎恩斯高中的学生学检验出患上了一种流行性感冒,或许就是“猪流感”,或许就是在墨西哥城要了68条人命“猪流感”的同一变种。(2009年4月26日,《纽约时报》新闻原句)
Tests show that eight students at a Queens high School are likely to have constracted the human swine flu virus that has struck Mexico and a small number of other people in the United States, health officials in New York City said yesterday.
纽约市卫生官员昨天称,各项检查表明,八名奎恩斯高中的学生很有可能感染了那种曾经袭击了墨西哥城和美国一小部分人口的“人类猪流感”病毒。(2009年4月26日《纽约时报》新闻原句)