SARS: China quarantines hundreds
SARS: 中国隔离数百人

☆ quarantine  隔离

Monday, April 26, 2004 Posted: 0405 GMT (1205 HKT)

BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Chinese health officials are keeping at least 470 people under observation, as they try to contain a small cluster of confirmed and suspected SARS cases in Beijing and the eastern province of Anhui.
中国，北京----中国卫生部门目前在北京和安徽省至少隔离观察470人，在他们中间可能存在少量SARS确诊及疑似病例。

☆ confirmed and suspected SARS cases 确诊和疑似病例

As of Monday, China's health ministry was reporting the following figures on the latest SARS outbreak:
周一，中国卫生部通报了最新疫情。

☆ outbreak 暴发，发作

In Beijing, there has been one confirmed case and five suspected cases; among the suspected cases were the parents of the confirmed case.
在北京，已经确认1例确诊病例，5例疑似病例；在疑似病例中有一对是确诊病例患者的父母。

In Anhui, there has been one confirmed case and one suspected case. The suspected case, a woman who died on April 19, is the mother of the confirmed case.
在安徽，确诊1例确诊病例，1例疑似病例。该疑似病例为一女性，死于4月19日，是确诊病例患者的母亲。

The ministry also said 337 people in Beijing and 133 people in Anhui who may have had contact with the virus are under observation.
卫生部还称，共计有北京337人，安徽133人处于观察中，他们被怀疑可能接触到病毒。

☆ virus  病毒

Representatives from the World Health Organization have also been working with Chinese health officials in the wake of the reappearance of SARS cases in China.

SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, affected more than 8,000 people between November 2002 and July 2003 in what the WHO deemed a "global threat".

Nearly 800 of those who contracted the disease died from it, with Hong Kong, China and Vietnam the hardest hit regions.

WHO plans to organize a team of two or three experts in laboratory bio-safety issues to join a Health Ministry team to investigate possible links between China's Institute of Virology in Beijing, operated by China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and one or more of the SARS cases in China.The WHO team will arrive in China within days.