几十年后，小儿麻痹症在委内瑞拉卷土重来

Polio has been reported in Venezuela, a crisis-wracked country where the disease had been eradicated decades ago, the Pan-American Health Organization reports.

据泛美卫生组织报告，在委内瑞拉，小儿麻痹症之前被报道过。在这个饱受危机折磨的国家，几十年前就已经根除了这种疾病。

The organization said the child had no history of vaccination and lives in an under-immunized extremely impoverished Delta Amacuro state.

该组织表示，这名儿童没有接种疫苗的历史，生活在一个未经免疫的极度贫困的Delta Amacuro州。

Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a crippling childhood disease caused by the poliovirus, and preventable through immunization.

脊髓灰质炎是由脊髓灰质炎病毒引起的一种致残性儿童疾病，可通过免疫预防。

Doctor Jose Felix Oletta, a former Minister of Health, told AFP that the last case of acute poliomyelitis in Venezuela was reported in 1989.

前卫生部长何塞.费利克斯.奥莱塔医生告诉法新社说，委内瑞拉最后一例急性小儿麻痹症报告于1989年。

The virus especially affects people in conditions of malnutrition and unvaccinated, as this case, Oletta added.

奥莱塔补充说：“这种病毒特别影响营养不良患者以及未接种疫苗者，就像这种情况一样。”

Oletta slammed health authorities in President Nicolas Maduro?s government for taking more than a month to notify the PAHO that it had identified the virus. International health regulations require it to do so within 24 hours.

奥莱塔抨击总统尼古拉斯马杜罗政府的卫生当局花了一个多月的时间通知泛美卫生组织它已查明该病毒。国际卫生条例要求它在24小时内这样做。

Venezuela, devastated by economic and political crises, also accounted for 85 percent of cases of measles reported across Latin America and the Caribbean over the past year, the PAHO said.

泛美卫生组织称，过去一年，受经济和政治危机影响的委内瑞拉也占拉丁美洲和加勒比地区报告的麻疹病例的85％。

Of the 11 countries that reported cases, Venezuela had the overwhelming majority of cases, but also 35 deaths since mid-2017, the international organization said.

该国际组织称，在报告案件的11个国家中，委内瑞拉案件绝大多数，而且自2017年年中以来已有35人死亡。

More specifically, "there were eleven countries that reported 1,685 confirmed measles cases across the region," of which 1,427 were in Venezuela, a PAHO report released Saturday found.

更具体地说，“有11个国家在该地区报告了1685例确诊麻疹病例，”其中1427例在委内瑞拉。