Dr Chan noted that the spread of Zika virus disease, the resurgence of dengue, and the emerging threat from chikungunya were the result of weak mosquito control policies from the 1970s.
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在二十世纪七十年代，病媒控制领域投入的资金和作出的努力大幅减少。
It was during that decade that funding and efforts for vector control were greatly reduced.
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病媒控制工作未受重视
'Vector control has not been a priority'
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Ana Carolina Silva Santelli博士目睹了这一切。
Dr Ana Carolina Silva Santelli has witnessed this first-hand.
As former head of the programme for malaria, dengue, Zika and chikungunya with Brazil’s Ministry of Health, she saw vector-control efforts wane over her 13 years there.
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喷雾器、杀虫剂等用品以及昆虫学家等人员未按需更换。
Equipment such as spraying machines, supplies such as insecticides and personnel such as entomologists were not replaced as needed.
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她说：“病媒控制工作未获重视”。
“Vector control has not been a priority,” she said.
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今天，全世界80%以上的人口面临病媒传播疾病风险，一半人口面临两种或两种以上疾病的风险。
Today more than 80% of the world’s population is at risk of vector-borne disease, with half at risk of two or more diseases.
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蚊子可以传播疟疾、淋巴丝虫病、日本脑炎和西尼罗河病等疾病；
Mosquitoes can transmit, among other diseases, malaria, lymphatic filariasis, Japanese encephalitis and West Nile; flies can transmit onchocerciasis, leishmaniasis and human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness); and bugs or ticks can transmit Chagas disease, Lyme disease and encephalitis.
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每年共有70多万人死于主要病媒传染病，热带和亚热带贫困人群面临最大风险。
Together, the major vector-borne diseases kill more than 700 000 people each year, with populations in poverty-stricken tropical and subtropical areas at highest risk.