river blindness

river blindness

美 　英

• n.盘尾丝虫病
• 网络河盲症；河川盲；盲眼性丝虫病

英汉双解

英汉解释

un.

1. 河盲症

例句

The campaign to eliminate river blindness began as the most vertical programme imaginable: helicopters dropping insecticides out of the sky.

根除河盲症运动开始时是可以想象的最纵向的规划：直升飞机从空中投撒杀虫剂。

REPORTER B: River blindness can be prevented with drugs and by killing off the blackfly.

记者B：尽管通过药物以及捕杀黑蝇的方法能够预防河盲的传播，许多家庭仍然决定一起迁离河边。

REPORTER A: River blindness is caused by a parasitic worm that lived under the surface of the skin.

记者A：河盲是由一种生长于皮肤表皮下的寄生虫引起的疾病。

Another one is called trachoma, or river blindness.

另外一种疾病是沙眼，也叫做河盲。

The current treatment for river blindness is the drug ivermectin, which kills larval parasites but not the adult worms.

目前治疗盘尾丝虫病的手段是使用一种叫做伊维菌素（ivermectin）的药物，它杀死幼虫，但是对成虫无效。

River blindness (onchocerciasis) has been eliminated as a public health problem.

河盲症（盘尾丝虫病）作为一公共卫生问题现已被消灭。

But before we talk more about it for today's health check health minute, here's everything you need to know about river blindness.

在我们进行今天的《健康咨询》节目之前，让我们来了解一下有关河盲的知识。

The father is blind, from a disease called river blindness, which is transmitted by black flies, and cannot cultivate the fields.

他们的父亲得了一种叫做“河盲”的病（又叫盘尾丝虫病，由黑蝇传播），双目失明，没法下地。

But in some places, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, families have moved away from rivers because they fear catching river blindness.

然而在某些地方，尤其是撒哈拉南部非洲的周边地区，因为害怕患上河盲，人们迁至远离河流的地方。

dramatically reduced the scourge of river blindness (onchocerciasis);

大大减轻了河盲症（盘尾丝虫病）祸害；