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Thank you for joining us for today's Spotlight. I'm Rebekah Schipper.
感谢您收听今天的重点报道节目。我是丽贝卡·席佩尔。
And I'm Joshua Leo. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting.
我是约书亚·里奥。本报道节目用慢速英语的方式播报新闻。
It is easier for people to understand no matter where in the world they live.
以便让世界各地的人们更容易听懂本报道节目。
Hyacinth Igelle is a farmer.
海叶森思·伊格尔是一个农民。
He lives in Ogi, a village in Nigeria.
他住在尼日利亚的奥吉村。
The people in the village do not have very much money, but they work very hard.
村里的人没有很多钱，但他们工作很努力。
Recently, Mr. Igelle has not been able to work.
最近，伊格尔先生一直无法工作。
His hand hurts very badly.
他的手疼得很厉害。
Mr. Igelle has a painful disease caused by a parasite, an organism living in his body.
伊格尔先生患有一种由寄生虫（即一种生活在他体内的生物）引起的疼痛性疾病。
The parasite is called the guinea worm.
这种寄生虫叫做麦地那龙线虫。
Today's Spotlight is on this painful disease, and how people are trying to stop it from spreading.
今天的重点报道节目将聚焦这种令人痛苦的疾病，以及人们如何努力阻止它的传播。
In the village of Ogi there is a building made of dirt.
在奥吉村有一座用泥土建造的建筑物。
The building is called the Guinea Worm Containment Center.
这座建筑物被称为麦地那龙线虫控制中心。
Recently, Mr. Igelle stayed here with 3 other patients.
最近，伊格尔先生和另外三个患者住在这里。
Workers give the patients containers of water to put their arms and legs in.
工作人员给患者提供装水的容器，让他们把胳膊和腿放进去。
Workers also give the patients three meals a day.
工作人员还为患者提供一日三餐。
This keeps them from working in the farm fields, and spreading the disease.
这使他们不必在农田里劳作，也不会传播这种疾病。
You see, the disease is spread by putting an infected area of the body into drinking water.
你看，这种疾病是通过将身体被感染的部位放入饮用水中进行传播的。
The guinea worm begins life as a larva.
麦地那龙线虫最初是幼虫。
The larvae are very small.
幼虫非常小。
They live in water with another small organism, the water flea.
它们和另一种小型生物——水蚤一起生活在水中。
Water fleas eat the guinea worm larvae.
水蚤吃麦地那龙线虫幼虫。
But the larvae infect the fleas.
但幼虫会传染跳蚤。
When a person gathers drinking water, he also gathers the infected fleas.
当人收集饮用水时，他也收集了被感染的跳蚤。
If he does not treat the water, and make it clean, the fleas enter his body.
如果他不把水处理干净，跳蚤就会进入他的身体。
When the person's body breaks down the flea, the guinea worm larvae are released.
当人的身体分解跳蚤时，麦地那龙线虫幼虫就会被释放出来。
The larvae mate inside his body.
幼虫在他的体内交配。
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