【专题】慢速英语（英音）2015-12-14

2015-12-14 Special English This is NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. Here is the news. This year's Nobel Prize laureate for physiology or medicine, Tu Youyou, has called for joint efforts worldwide to combat malaria and develop more potential uses for traditional Chinese medicine. Eighty-four-year-old Tu made the appeal at a news conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. She collected China's first Nobel Prize in medicine at the award ceremony last Thursday and attended the Nobel Banquet and a Royal banquet. Tu said malaria is a pandemic that can easily get out of control, especially in low income regions including Africa. So all parties should, under the framework of the World Health Organization, try their best to delay the process of artemisinin resistance. Tu won the prize in early October for her lifesaving discoveries concerning artemisinin, a novel therapy for fighting malaria. Currently, the emergence of resistance to artemisinin is an urgent public health concern and threatens the sustainability of the global effort to reduce malaria. To date, parasite resistance has been documented in three of the five malaria strains known to affect humans. Tu said it is difficult to develop a new drug in the next decade, and it may be too late if malaria becomes widespread, adding that she was deeply worried about this possible outcome. This is NEWS Plus Special English. （全文见周六微信。）