Infectious diseases worry me, especially new diseases with pandemic potential.

传染病使我担忧，尤其是具有大流行潜力的新疾病。

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However, our pandemic potential scale reflects the likelihood of a pandemic and not its severity.

然而，我们的大流行潜在等级反映的是大流行的可能性，而不是其严重性。

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"It has pandemic potential because it is infecting people," Margaret Chan, the director general of WHO, said from Geneva over the weekend.

“由于可以在人际间传染，因此它有着大流行的潜力”，世卫组织总干事陈冯富珍北周末在日内瓦表示。

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Health: While technological progress has dramatically increased the movement of people, products, and ideas throughout the Asia-Pacific, it has also facilitated the spread of infectious diseases, some with pandemic potential.

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In Asia, more than 120 people have been sickened, and 23 are dead, from a potent strain of bird flu that has the frightening markings of a potential pandemic strain.

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Work began on a big project to understand potential flu pandemic threats.

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