（每日一读）2014年2月高考英语考前突破 阅读理解能力 社会生活 富汗发现一例小儿麻痹症病例

富汗发现一例小儿麻痹症病例An Afghan girl has been diagnosed with polio in Kabul - the capital's first case since the Taliban's fall in 2001.阿富汗首都喀布尔一位女童被确诊患上小儿麻 痹症，这是 2001 年塔利班倒台以来的首例病例。 The health ministry ordered a vaccination campaign across the capital after the three-year-old was diagnosed. Polio remains endemic in Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern Nigeria, but has been almost wiped out around the world. In all three countries Islamic extremists have obstructed health workers, preventing polio eradication campaigns from taking place. Since the Afghan Taliban changed their policy, allowing vaccination in recent years, there has been a decline in cases in Afghanistan. There were 80 cases in 2011, 37 in 2012, and 14 in 2013. The emergence of a new case in Kabul is worrying health officials. It was discovered in a very poor community of Kuchis, formerly nomadic（游牧的） herdsmen, now settled on a hillside in the east of the capital. In response, health workers have tried to visit every home in the community. There is no running water or electricity, and some of the ex-nomads still live in tents, despite the cold of winter in Kabul. Once the workers have put drops into the mouths of infants they find, they mark their hands with a blue line, and write the date on the wall. It seems rudimentary（基本的）, but tens of thousands of volunteers in campaigns like this across the country have succ eeded in almost beating the disease.