大地震后，衛生部指示，衛生防疫人員要進駐到每一個鄉鎮、每一個村。衛生防疫工作目前面臨的主要困難有生活及公共衛生條件差、疾病監控體系大面積受損、進入受災嚴重地區的渠道有限等問題。目前工作已見成效，汶川災區沒有重大傳染病疫情和突發公共衛生事件報告。

請看《中國日報》的報道：

Despite no major disease outbreaks so far in quake-hit regions, health and epidemic prevention efforts continue apace. Major challenges include poor living and public health conditions, largely destroyed disease monitoring and containment systems and limited access to some of the worst- hit areas.

雖然地震災區還沒有爆發重大疾病，衛生防疫工作還是在迅速進行當中。目前面臨的主要困難有生活及公共衛生條件差、疾病監控體系大面積受損、進入受災嚴重地區的渠道有限等問題。

The Ministry of Health has been working intensively to implement a comprehensive epidemic surveillance and containment system in disaster areas right across Sichuan.

衛生部正緊鑼密鼓地在四川災區部署全面的疫情監控體系。

上述報道中，epidemic prevention就是“防疫”，health and epidemic prevention是“衛生防疫”；epidemic指的是a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease or many people are infected at the same time，即“流行病，傳染病”或者“疫情”。disease monitoring and containment system是“疾病監控體系”，epidemic surveillance and containment system就是“疫情監控體系”。

（英語點津 Helen 編輯）