2021年3月22日 星期一

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Krispy Kreme has come up with a way to make getting the Covid-19 vaccine extra sweet. Starting Monday until the end of the year, if you take your vaccination card to any Krispy Kreme location in the US, you can get a free glazed doughnut each day.

By endowing a line of mosquitoes with an antibody against the dengue virus, researchers have for the first time made insects that—at least in lab tests—appear unable to spread any form of the disease.
Equipping mosquitoes with an antidengue antibody could someday protect millions of people from dreaded virus






SCIENCEMAG.ORG


Genetically engineered mosquitoes resist spreading any form of dengue







The New Yorker
“Trained physicians and nurses are more essential today than they have ever been.” Michael Specter on the medical profession’s troubling surrender on vaccines.
Many parents are asking for their children’s vaccinations to be delayed, and many physicians are agreeing, even though it puts patients at risk.
NEWYORKER.COM|由 MICHAEL SPECTER 上傳


It's getting harder to persuade skeptical parents to vaccinate their kids.
The measles outbreak that began at California’s Disneyland Resort last month is part of a new trend that worries public health officials.
WSJ.COM|由 BETSY MCKAY AND JEANNE WHALEN 上傳




The "anti-vaxxers" won't change their minds, but the "vaccine-hesitant" might.

Doctors hope parents will be moved by the outbreak.
WASHINGTONPOST.COM


    Anti-vaccination movement - RationalWiki
  1. rationalwiki.org/wiki/Anti-vaccination_movement

    The movement (more mockingly referred to as "anti-vaxxers") blames vaccines, or their ingredients, for a range of maladies whose mechanisms are rejected or  ...

"They’re trying to change; they’re trying to get different kinds of anchors, discount stores … [But] what’s going on is the customers don’t have the fucking money. That’s it. This isn’t rocket science" (via Guardian Cities
The death of the American mall
Once-proud shots at suburban utopia left to rot as rise of online shopping and resurgence of city centres make malls increasingly irrelevant to young people
THE GUARDIAN


The French drugmaker Sanofi has announced that its dengue vaccine has proved effective against three of the four dengue virus strains in clinical trials conducted in Thailand.



Walter Mosley: By the Book


The author of the Easy Rawlins novels, most recently, "Little Green," says that in a great mystery, "the crime being investigated reveals a deeper rot."





vaccinate

Line breaks: vac¦cin|ate
Pronunciation: /ˈvaksɪneɪ/



Definition of vaccinate in English:

VERB

[WITH OBJECT]
Treat with a vaccine to produce immunity against adiseaseinoculate:all the children were vaccinated againsttuberculosis
 black sheep
noun

informal
  • a member of a family or group who is regarded as a disgrace to it.

Origin:

late 18th century: from the proverb there is a black sheep in every flock







rot

Pronunciation: /rɒt/

Definition of rot

verb (rots, rotting, rotted)

  • 1(chiefly of animal or vegetable matter) decay or cause to decay by the action of bacteria and fungi; decompose: [no object]:the chalets were neglected and their woodwork was rotting away [with object]:caries sets in at a weak point and spreads to rot the whole tooth
  • [no object] gradually deteriorate, especially through neglect:the education system has been allowed to rot
  • 2 [with object] British informal, dated make fun of; tease:has anybody been rotting you?

noun

[mass noun]
  • 1the process of decaying:the leaves were turning black with rot
  • rotten or decayed matter.
  • [usually with modifier] any of a number of fungal or bacterial diseases that cause tissue deterioration, especially in plants.
  • (often the rot) liver rot in sheep.
  • 2 (the rot) British a process of deterioration; a decline in standards:there is enough talent in the team to stop the rot
  • US corruption on the part of officials.
  • 3 informal, chiefly British nonsense; rubbish:don’t talk rot [as exclamation]:‘Rot!’ she said with vehemence

Origin:

Old English rotian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch rotten; the noun (Middle English) may have come via Scandinavian

dengue  登革熱
(dĕng'gē, -gā) pronunciation
n.
An acute, infectious tropical disease caused by an arbovirus transmitted by mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain. Also called breakbone fever, dandy fever, Also called dengue fever.

[American Spanish, alteration (influenced by dengue, affectation) of Swahili -dinga.]



vac·cine
(văk-sēn', văk'sēn') pronunciation
n.
    1. A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen, such as a bacterium or virus, or of a portion of the pathogen's structure that upon administration stimulates antibody production or cellular immunity against the pathogen but is incapable of causing severe infection.
    2. A preparation from the cowpox virus that protects against smallpox.
  1. Computer Science. A software program designed to detect and stop the progress of computer viruses.
[From Latin vaccīnus, of cows, from vacca, cow.]

━━ n., a. 痘苗(とうびょう); ワクチン(の)還未查到日本為何如此發音 似乎法文n. - vaccin 來的; 【コンピュータ】コンピュータワクチン ((コンピュータ・ウイルスを防御・検知・除去するプログラム)).
vac・ci・nal
 ━━ a. 【医】ワクチン[種痘]の.


vermiculate Pronunciation (adjective) Infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms.
Synonyms:worm-eaten, wormy
Usage:I returned from vacation to find my yard littered with vermiculate, rotting plums that had fallen from the tree while I was away.

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