广播电视英语短句 第 219 课：小儿麻痹症-1

The World Health Organization has begun to use a new vaccine against polio. 世界卫生组织已经开始使用新的疫苗预防小儿麻痹症。

Officials say it will become a major tool in the campaign to end a disease that mainly affects children under age five. 官员表示新的疫苗将成为根除小儿麻痹症疾病的主要手段，这种病主要影响 5 岁以下的儿童。

The new formulation is known as B.O.P.V. , or bivalent oral polio vaccine. 新的制剂称为 B.O.P.V. 或二价口服小儿麻痹疫苗。

It was used for the first time in December in a polio immunization campaign in Afghanistan . 12 月，此种疫苗首次在阿富汗小儿麻痹免疫运动中使用。

Carol Pandak is with the PolioPlus program of the service organization Rotary International. Carol Pandak 是国际扶轮社服务组织 Pilioplus 项目组的成员。