PALO ALTO – Last June, the United Nations’ World Health Organization, responding to an outbreak of the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, boosted the pandemic alert to the highest level, Phase 6, meaning that a pandemic was under way – the first time in 41 years that the organization had taken that declared step. But the outbreak appears to have ended less like the rogue wild boar that WHO bureaucrats predicted and more like a roasted pork tenderloin with apples and sage.
帕洛阿尔托——去年6月，联合国世界卫生组织对H1N1病毒爆发性流行做出反应，将流行病警报级别提升到最高级别6级，也就是流行病已经爆发——这是世卫组织近41年来首次采取这样的公开行动。但这次病毒爆发似乎并不是世卫组织官员预想中的那头暴戾的野猪，而更像是一份配有苹果和鼠尾草烤猪脊肉。