中英对照读新闻》Companies Announce Partnership to Release Dengue-Fighting Mosquitoes in Caribbean 公司宣布合作在加勒比海地区投放登革热防治蚊子
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蚊子示意图。（路透档案照）(photo:LTN)◎陈成良
Two private companies announced Friday a partnership to release mosquitoes across the Caribbean bred with a bacterium that blocks the dengue virus as the region fights a record number of cases.
在加勒比地区登革热病例创下新高之际，两家私人公司週五宣布建立合作关系，在整个加勒比地区释放用一种能阻断登革热病毒之细菌所培育的蚊子。
Orbit Services Partners Inc., a company registered in Barbados, is partnering with Verily, a San Francisco-based health technology company, for the project. Similar projects using the Wolbachia bacterium already have been implemented elsewhere in the world.
在巴贝多註册的Orbit Services Partners股份有限公司，将与总部位于旧金山的健康科技公司Verily合作开展该计画。使用沃巴赫氏菌（Wolbachia）的类似计画，已经在世界其他地方实施。
Mosquitoes are infected with Wolbachia in a laboratory and then released into the wild, where they pass it on to their offspring. The bacterium prevents the dengue virus from replicating inside a mosquito’s gut.
蚊子在实验室中感染沃巴赫氏菌，然后释放到野外，在那里牠们将其传给后代。这种细菌可以防止登革热病毒在蚊子肠道内复制。
The Caribbean, along with the Americas, has reported more than 4 million dengue cases so far this year, the highest number since record-keeping began in 1980.
今年到目前为止，加勒比地区和美洲地区报告超过400万例登革热病例，这是自1980年开始记录以来的最高数字。
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