posted @ 2008-11-04 00:57
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Fernando Gomez
Jannat Jalil
A British drum-maker has died after inhaling anthrax spores while handling imported animal skins. Fernando Gomez, who was from London, had been in intensive care in hospital for more than a week. The Health Protection Agency says it’s traced seven other people who may have come into contact with the animal skins and has given them antibiotics as a precaution. Jannat Jalil reports.
For more than a week, doctors battled to save Fernando Gomez’s life. But nine days after he was admitted to hospital, the drum-maker died with his family at his bedside. It’s thought he breathed in the deadly anthrax spores as he was removing hair from imported animal hides he was using to make his drums. But officials are stressing that anthrax inhalation is very rare and not contagious. They say people who play animal hide drums should have nothing to worry about, as the risk is the to people who make them.
inhale (vt.) --- 1. to draw (air or smoke, for example) into the lungs by breathing; inspire 2. Informal to consume rapidly or eagerly; devour: inhaled lunch and then rushed off to the meeting.
(vi.) --- 1. to breathe in; inspire 2. to draw smoke into the lungs; puff.
anthrax (n.) --- 1. an infectious, usually fatal disease of warm-blooded animals, especially of cattle and sheep, caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. The disease can be transmitted to humans through contact with contaminated animal substances, such as hair, feces, or hides, and is characterized by ulcerative skin lesions炭疽热 2. pl. an·thra·ces a lesion caused by anthrax.
spore (n.) --- 1. a small, usually single-celled reproductive body that is highly resistant to desiccation and heat and is capable of growing into a new organism, produced especially by certain bacteria, fungi, algae, and nonflowering plants 2. a dormant nonreproductive body formed by certain bacteria in response to adverse environmental conditions孢子
(vi.) --- to produce spores长孢子
antibiotic (n.) --- 抗生素a substance, such as penicillin(盘尼西林/青霉素) or streptomycin(链霉素), produced by or derived from certain fungi(fungus菌类，蘑菇), bacteria, and other organisms, that can destroy or inhibit the growth of other microorganisms(微生物). Antibiotics are widely used in the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.
(adj.) --- 抗生的
hide (n.) --- the skin of an animal, especially the thick tough skin or pelt of a large animal
(v.) --- to beat severely; flog
hide nor hair (idiom) --- a trace; a vestige: haven't seen hide nor hair of them since the argument.
contagious (adj.) --- 1. (of a disease) capable of being passed on by contact 2. (of a person) capable of passing on a transmissible disease 3. spreading from person to person: contagious enthusiasm
posted @ 2008-11-04 00:52
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