WHO Chief Says World Faces Three Growing Threats (1/2)

A yearly meeting of all the member countries in the World Health Organization is this week in Geneva, Switzerland. Delegates from the one hundred ninety-three countries discuss progress and set policy for the coming year. The W.H.O., a United Nations agency, is sixty years old this year.  

But Director-General Margaret Chan, as she opened the World Health Assembly, noted that the delegates are meeting at a time of tragedy. She expressed sympathy to the millions of people affected by the recent cyclone in Burma, also known as Myanmar, and the earthquake in China.

Doctor Chan said three crises lie ahead that are international security threats and will all affect human health. One is food security, another is climate change and the third is the threat of a worldwide outbreak of influenza.

She said the world produces enough food to feed everyone -- in fact, she added, far too many people are overfed. Yet now, food prices have risen sharply. She noted that the crisis hits the poor the hardest, and that the more a family spends on food, the less it has for health care.

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这周，世界卫生组织全体成员国的年度会议在瑞士的日内瓦城举行。来自193个国家的代表们讨论各项进展，并为来年制定政策。世界卫生组织，是联合国的一个机构，到今年已经成立60年了。

但是，正如世卫组织总干事陈冯富珍在世界卫生大会开幕时所说的，与会代表在一个悲剧时刻参加了大会。她向最近在缅甸（Burma又名Myanmar）受飓风影响和在中国受地震影响的数百万人表示同情。

陈博士说，三大危机摆在面前，它们对国际安全造成威胁并将影响人类的健康。其一是食品安全问题，另一个是气候变化，第三是流行感冒全球性爆发的威胁。

她说，人类生产的食物足够供应每个人。事实上，她补充到，许多人吃得实在是太多了。尽管现在，食品价格大幅上升。她指出，穷人们在这场危机中受打击最重，而且一个家庭在食品上花费越多，在卫生保健上花得就越少。