H7N9禽流感跨國界傳播的憂慮大綱

WITH another death in China from the new strain of bird flu, a UN organization has expressed concern that the virus could spread across borders in poultry.
隨着中國又有一人死於新的禽流感病毒，一個聯合國組織已經表示擔心病毒在家禽中傳播會跨越國界。

Ten people infected with the H7N9 virus have now died in China.
中國目前有十個感染H7N9病毒的人死亡。

The exact source of infection remains unknown, though samples have tested positive in some birds in poultry markets that remain the focus of investigations by China and the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization.
確切的感染源還是未知，儘管在家禽市場一些鳥類樣本測試爲陽性仍然是中國和聯合國糧食和農業組織調查的焦點。

Speaking in Bangkok, the FAO's Subhash Morzaria said: "This particular region is land linked and so there is a possibility that if, inadvertently or advertently, somebody moves infected poultry across borders we can anticipate the spread of this virus."
在曼谷的演講中，糧農組織的Subhash Morzaria說:“這片特別的區域國土相連，萬一有人無意或有意跨越國界地轉移受感染的家禽，我們可以預見這種病毒的傳播。”

Morzaria added: "We are proactively initiating surveillance programs in neighboring countries like Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam which border China and are at particular risk and we are trying to understand how the poultry movement has taken place so we can identify more accurately where the risk is going to be."
Morzaria補充說:“我們正在與中國接壤的鄰近國家如緬甸、老撾和越南中積極啓動監控程序，特別危險，我們正試圖瞭解家禽轉移如何發生，這樣我們就能更準確地識別風險將會到哪。”

The new virus is severe in most humans, leading to fears that if it becomes easily transmissible, it could cause a deadly influenza pandemic.
這種新病毒在大多數人身上是嚴重的，如果它變得太容易傳播就會導致恐懼，這可能引起致命流感的肆虐。

However, Morzaria said: "This new H7N9 virus hasn't been demonstrated to be transmitted between humans, so from that context we think that the H7N9 virus is not going to be a pandemic like H1N1 strains."
然而，Morzaria說：“這種新H7N9病毒還沒有被證明會在人類之間傳播，所以從這個背景下我們認爲H7N9病毒不會像H1N1病毒那樣大流行。”

Morzaria reiterated that there was no connection between the outbreak and the thousands of dead pigs found floating in Shanghai waters in recent weeks.
Morzaria重申，疫情爆發和最近幾週上海海域發現漂浮的成千上萬只死豬沒有關係。