1.Tests show that eight students at a Queens high School are likely to have constracted the human swineflu virus that has struck Mexico and a small number of other people in the United States, health officials in New York City said yesterday.
纽约市卫生官员昨天称,各项检查表明,八名奎恩斯高中的学生很有可能感染了那种曾经袭击了墨西哥城和美国一小部分人口的“人类猪流感”病毒。(nytimes.com; April 26. 2009)收藏指正
2.Responding to what some health officials feared could be the leading edge of a global pandemic emerging from Mexico, American health officials declared a public health emergency on Sunday as 20 cases of swineflu were confirmed in this country, including eight in New York City.