"I cannot control whether or not I wind up getting the disease swine flu, for example," he says.

“例如，我无法控制最终自己是否会得猪流感。”他说。

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In that month, 34 confirmed or probable cases of swine flu were reported to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 13 states.

当月有13个州向美国疾病防控中心(CDC)报告了34例确诊或疑似猪流感病例。

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That wouldn’t have been a blip on the screen had there been a pandemic but, in the absence of any swine flu disease, these rare events were sufficient to end the programme.

如果大流行发生，这些都不过是小事一桩，但在没有任何猪流感疾病时，这些偶发事件足以中断该规划。

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Scientists say the common name for the new disease,swine flu,is misleading.

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Take,for example, the outbreaks of mad cow disease in Europe and swine flu in the United States.

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It is also a way of getting rest and treatment." The most severe cases of swine flu have been found in Mexico, where the disease is suspected of killing more than 150 people and sickening hundreds more.

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H1N1 is a more appropriate label for this flu, because a direct link from pig to human has not been established, according to Professor Marie Gramer's who studies swine disease at the University of Minnesota.

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As well as foot-and-mouth, the institute also focuses on diseases in cattle, sheep, horses and pigs, including lumpy skin disease, rinderpest, African swine fever, swine vesicular disease and equine encephalosis.

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This is the Emergency Operations Center at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has ramped up its resources to tackle swine flu, a new disease that experts say may evolve into a global pandemic.

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