VOA慢速英語:Worries Grow About Treating Gonorrhea

淋病抗藥性日益嚴重 治療愈發(fā)艱難

This is the VOA Special English Health Report.
這里是美國之音慢速英語健康報道。

Each year an estimated one hundred six million people get infected with gonorrhea. This sexually transmitted disease is getting harder and harder to treat.
預計每年有1.06億人感染淋病，這種性傳播疾病越來越難以治療。

The World Health Organization says gonorrhea is increasingly resistant to antibiotics. The WHO warns that there are few treatment options available, and that the world is running out of ways to cure it.
世衛(wèi)組織稱，淋病對抗生素的抗藥性日益嚴重。世衛(wèi)組織警告稱，當前有效的治療方案極少，能夠治愈它的辦法也幾乎窮盡。

Manjula Lusti-Narasimhan is a scientist in the Department of Sexually Transmitted Diseases at the WHO. She explains what could happen if this bacterial disease becomes untreatable.
Manjula Lusti-Narasimhan是世衛(wèi)組織性傳播疾病部門的一名科學家。她解釋了如果這種細菌性疾病成為不治之癥可能會發(fā)生什么。

MANJULA LUSTI-NARASIMHAN: "For men and women of reproductive age, they could become infertile. For women who are pregnant, they could have ectopic pregnancies or spontaneous abortions that could increase maternal deaths. And for infants born to these women with untreated gonorrhea, we already know that over half of them develop severe eye infections and many of these could lead to blindness."
MANJULA LUSTI-NARASIMHAN：“對于育齡男性和女性來說，他們可能會不孕。對孕婦來說，她們可能會發(fā)生宮外孕或自然流產(chǎn)，這會加大產(chǎn)婦死亡風險。而對淋病未經(jīng)治療的婦女生出來的嬰兒來說，我們已經(jīng)知道，其中一半以上的嬰兒會導致嚴重的眼部感染，其中許多嬰兒可能會導致失明。”

Gonorrhea is one of four major sexually transmitted infections that can be cured. The other three are chlamydial infection, syphilis and chancroid.
淋病是可以治愈的四大性傳播疾病之一。另三種分別是衣原體感染、梅毒和軟下疳。

But the organism that causes gonococcal infections has developed resistance to almost every class of antibiotic that exists. Resistance is caused by the overuse of antibiotics and the use of poor quality antibiotics. It also results from natural genetic changes, or mutations, within disease organisms.
但導致淋球菌感染的病菌對幾乎所有現(xiàn)存類別的抗生素都產(chǎn)生了抗藥性。造成抗藥性的原因是過度使用抗生素以及使用質量低劣的抗生素，原因還包括自然基因變異，或病菌突變。

The WHO says it does not know the extent of the resistance worldwide. This is because of a lack of good information in many countries and a lack of research. But it says cases of resistance to treatment are already being reported in several countries. These include Australia, France, Japan, Norway, Sweden and Britain.
世衛(wèi)組織稱其尚未知悉全球范圍類抗藥性的嚴重程度。這是因為在許多國家缺乏有效信息，同時對此也缺乏研究。但它表示，已經(jīng)有數(shù)個國家報告了治療的抗藥性案例，這些國家包括澳大利亞、法國、日本、挪威、瑞典和英國。

The WHO is calling for smarter use of antibiotics and more research into new ways to treat the infections. Dr. Lusti-Marasimhan says there is no current research into new drug treatments for gonorrhea.
世衛(wèi)組織呼吁更理智地使用抗生素，以及更深入地研究治療這種感染的新途徑。Lusti-Marasimhan博士表示，目前沒有淋病新藥治療的研究。

MANJULA LUSTI-NARASIMHAN: "We have no plan B right now. There has been this general complacency that has set in because so far, you pop a pill, you get cured, end of story. And, we are no longer there. We are in a state right now where in so many places this organism is rapidly developing resistance. So we do need to start looking into the research."
MANJULA LUSTI-NARASIMHAN：“我們現(xiàn)在沒有其它計劃。當前已經(jīng)產(chǎn)生了一種普遍的自滿情緒，因為迄今為止，淋病吃個藥就治愈了。但這種現(xiàn)象已不復存在。我們現(xiàn)在的處境是，在很多地方，這種病菌迅速形成了抗藥性。所以我們迫切需要開始展望研究。”

The World Health Organization is part of the United Nations. The WHO is calling for urgent action to prevent the spread of untreatable gonorrhea. A new global action plan calls for increased monitoring and reporting of resistant strains of the disease. The plan also calls for better efforts to prevent, diagnose and control the infections.
世衛(wèi)組織隸屬于聯(lián)合國的一部分。該組織呼吁采取緊急行動，阻止無法治療的淋病的傳播。一項新的全球行動計劃要求增加對疾病耐藥株的監(jiān)測和報告。該計劃還要求更好地預防、診斷和控制這類感染。