世卫组织批准首个有效的疟疾疫苗

Hello, I'm Neil Nunes with the BBC News.

大家好，尼尔·纽纳斯为您播报BBC新闻。

The World Health Organization has endorsed the widespread use of the first proven vaccine against malaria, a disease which kills more than 400,000 people a year.

世界卫生组织现已批准广泛使用首个已证实有效的疟疾疫苗，这种疾病每年到会导致40多万人死亡。

The vaccine will be distributed primarily across sub-Saharan Africa.

该疫苗将主要分发给撒哈拉以南的非洲地区。

Here's our health correspondent James Gallagher.

请听本台健康记者詹姆斯·加拉格的报道。

Malaria is something that you don't get once and then you've built upon the immunity you need and then you're done.

疟疾不是那种得过一次就能产生免疫力，从而终身不再感染的疾病。

People will catch malaria again and again and again and again.

人们会一次又一次地感染疟疾。

And even at just the level of malaria that gives you fever and chills, it's hugely disruptive to day-to-day life.

即使只是让你发烧和发冷的疟疾病情，也会对日常生活造成巨大的影响。

And then on top of that, you get these really severe cases that are deadly.

最重要的是，还会出现一些非常严重的致命病例。

There has been huge global progress, things like insecticide-treated bed nets. All of those have dented the levels of malaria in the world.

全球抗疟疾已经取得巨大的进步，如采用经杀虫剂处理的蚊帐。这些努力降低了世界疟疾的感染率。

But they've not taken it away and the real hope is that this vaccine is gonna get us a little bit closer to a world where people don't die from malaria anymore.

但他们并没有消灭疟疾，真正的希望落在了这款疫苗身上，它将让一个不再有人死于疟疾的世界离我们更近。

The White House has announced plans for President Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to meet by video link before the end of the year.

白宫宣布，计划安排拜登总统和中国国家主席习近平在今年年底前通过视频连线进行会晤。

An agreement in principle was reached during in person talks between senior Chinese and US officials in Switzerland on Wednesday.

周三，中美两国高级官员在瑞士举行的面对面会谈中达成了一项原则性协议。

Relations between Washington and Beijing have been acrimonious since Mr Biden took office this year.

自拜登今年上任以来，美中关系一直剑拔弩张。

The UN Security Council has been told that increasingly alarming accounts of hunger-related deaths are emerging from the Tigray region of Ethiopia.

联合国安理会被告知，埃塞俄比亚提格雷地区与饥饿有关的死亡人数正在激增，令人担忧。

The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, again, appeals to the Ethiopian government to allow the unhindered movement of desperately needed supplies to the region after nearly a year of conflict.

联合国秘书长安东尼奥·古特雷斯再次呼吁埃塞俄比亚政府允许急需的物资不受阻碍地进入该地区，该地区的冲突爆发已有近一年的时间。

The United Nations has no political agenda in Ethiopia. Our agenda is just one: to support the Ethiopian people.

联合国在埃塞俄比亚没有政治计划。我们的计划只有一个：支持埃塞俄比亚人民。

We can not see people go on dying because of bullets or dying because of hunger. We need to do everything to stop this conflict.

我们不能眼看着人们继续死于子弹或死于饥饿。我们需要尽一切努力阻止这场冲突。

We need to do everything for humanitarian aid to be distributed to everywhere to everybody.

我们需要尽一切努力将人道主义援助分发到该地区的每一个角落，发给每一个人。

NATO is expelling eight members of Russia's mission to the alliance after describing them as undeclared Russian intelligence officers.

北约正在驱逐俄罗斯驻北约代表团的8名成员，此前北约称他们是未公开身份的俄罗斯情报官员。

Jessica Parker reports from Brussels.

请听杰西卡·帕克在布鲁塞尔的报道。

Despite the dramatic move, a NATO official said that its policy towards Russia remained consistent that it had strengthened its defense in response to Russian aggression while remaining open for meaningful dialogue.

尽管做出了这一出人意料的举动，一名北约官员仍表示，北约对俄罗斯的政策始终如一，即加强防御以应对俄罗斯的侵犯，同时愿意进行有意义的对话。

It's understood the decision to withdraw accreditation from eight members of the Russian mission to NATO and half the size of the overall team there will take effect at the end of this month.

据了解，北约撤销俄罗斯8名代表团成员的资格并将俄罗斯代表团总人数减半的决定将于本月底生效。

The move isn't uNPRecedented. Similar action was taken in 2018 in the wake of the Salisbury poisonings in the UK as part of a mass expulsion by allied countries.

此举并非史无前例。2018年，在英国索尔兹伯里投毒事件之后，英国的盟友国也对俄罗斯代表进行过大规模驱逐。

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