VOA慢速英语:Rare Fungal Meningitis Outbreak in United States

短语讲解：

1. Health officials reported Monday that fifteen people had died from fungal meningitis linked to steroid shots.

link to 与...有关
例句：Bonus payment is link to productivity. 
奖金与生产率挂钩。

2. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there were more than two hundred confirmed cases of the disease in fifteen states.

more than 多于
例句：True friendship is worth more than money. 
真正的友谊比金钱更有价值。 

3. The Centers for Disease Control says others who received the injections in their joints are not thought to be at risk.

at risk 处于危险中
例句：Were those patients now at risk? 
那些病人现在是否处于危险之中呢？ 

4. “CDC is working with state and local health departments to contact patients who may have received injections at the facilities who received the recalled lots of this medication to inform (them) that they, that they may have been exposed, to find out if they’re having symptoms, and to instruct them to seek health care should they be ill.”

work with 与...共事
例句：His secretaries work with system. 
他的几位秘书工作有条不紊。 
find out 找出
例句：I'll find out the address,and ring you back. 
我找到地址后再与你通电话。 

5. Health experts say they do not know how many people will actually become sick.

how many 多少
例句：Count and see how many trees there are in a row. 
数数看一行有多少棵树。