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進入中英對照讀新聞》A feline virus mutation in Cyprus caused far fewer cat deaths than claimed賽普勒斯貓科動物病毒突變導致的貓隻死亡數遠低於聲稱數量
賽普勒斯首都尼克西亞一處收容所的貓。（美聯社）
◎周虹汶
The head of the Cyprus veterinarians association on Wednesday dismissed as greatly exaggerated the claims that a local mutation of a feline virus has killed as many as 300,000 cats on the small Mediterranean island.
賽普勒斯獸醫協會主席週三駁斥了有關貓科動物病毒局部突變導致這個地中海小島上多達30萬隻貓死亡的說法，認為這種說法過於誇大。
The director of the Pancyprian Veterinary Association, Nektaria Ioannou Arsenoglou, said the group’s survey of 35 veterinary clinics indicate an island-wide total of only about 8,000 deaths. Arsenoglou said numbers that have been presented by local animal activists and amplified by foreign media outlets “simply don’t add up.”
泛賽普勒斯獸醫協會主席內克塔利亞．約安努．阿爾塞諾格魯說，該團體針對35家獸醫診所的調查顯示，全島死亡數總共只約8000。阿爾塞諾格魯說，當地動物活動人士提供的數字和外國媒體放大的數字「根本對不起來」。
Arsenoglou told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the local mutation of a feline coronavirus that causes Feline Infectious Peritonitis is nearly always lethal if left untreated, but that medication can nurse cats back to health in approximately 85% of cases.
阿爾塞諾格魯週三告訴美聯社，若不治療，導致貓傳染性腹膜炎的貓科冠狀病毒局部突變幾乎總是致命的，但藥物在約85％病例中可讓貓隻恢復健康。
The feline coronavirus has been around since 1963. Previous epidemics, including one in Greece more than two decades ago, eventually fizzled out without the use of any medication, Arsenoglou said. (AP)
阿爾塞諾格魯說，貓科動物冠狀病毒1963年以來就一直存在。以前的流行病，包括逾20年前在希臘有一場，最後在沒有使用任何藥物的情況下消失了。（美聯社）
新聞辭典
add up：動詞片語，指前後一致、合理、說得通、加總、合計、得到應有的總數。例句：Your story just doesn’t add up. You must be lying.（你的話前後不一致。你一定在說謊。）
amplify：放大聲音、增強、發揮、詳述、誇大。例句：His anxiety about the world was amplifying his personal fears about his future.（他對世界的擔憂，加劇了他對自身未來的恐懼。）
