CNN News:流行病传播

What word describes something that’s widespread over a continent or the world?

下面哪个词语是用来描述某事物流行于大陆或世界?

Epidemic, pandemic, polemic or epistemic?

Epidemic, pandemic, polemic or epistemic

When something like a disease is pandemic, it spread over a very large area and affects many people.

pandemic这个词，是用来疾病传播了一大片地区，影响了很多人。

AZUZ: When it comes to potential disease pandemics, a public health expert says we’re only as secure as the world’s weakest country and there are a lot of countries with relatively weak health systems and economies.

当涉及到大规模的流行病，公共卫生专家表示，我们的安全度和世界上最弱的国家是一样的，同时世界上有很多国家经济薄弱，安全系统脆弱。

Following the Ebola outbreak of 2014, the international spread of the Zika virus, and the global circulation of other diseases like swine flu and SARS, experts are warning that civilians and health officials need to be prepared for another outbreak. Of what? They don’t know yet.

2014年埃博拉病毒爆发，此外还有Zika病毒的国际传播以及其他全球性流行病，如猪流感和SARS等。专家警告称，平民和卫生官员要为疾病再次爆发做准备。至于什么疾病呢?他们也不知道。

But they’re concerned for several reasons: one, the world’s population is growing and so is the number of people who live close to each other in cities. Two, people are traveling more each year. That can circulate problems to other countries. Three, many nations were disease outbreaks are likely are poor and they have fewer doctors and nurses to treat the population.

但是他们担忧有以下几个原因：一，世界人口正在增长，同时，城市的人口也在增长。二，每年旅行的人增多。这会将疾病问题带到其他的国家。第三，疾病爆发的一些国家，可能比较贫穷，同时治疗疾病的医护人员数量比较少。

Of course, there are many other factors like the years it takes to develop vaccines. But there are also plans forming worldwide to take on diseases when they start to spread.

当然，还有其他的因素，比如，研发疫苗的期限。但是，当疾病开始传播时，全球会有各种应对计划。