China has 400,000 new cases of epilepsy every year

时间：2007-06-28 08:55:24

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Chinanews, Beijing, June 28 – Today marks the world’s first day of caring for epileptics. The theme for this year’s Caring for Epileptics Day is “eliminating prejudice and walking out of the shadow.” When attending an epilepsy conference in Beijing, Zhang Huiben, an expert from the China Association Against Epilepsy said that there were about 50 million epileptics in the world, with 40 million of them in developing countries. As China entered into an aging society, he said, the incidence of cerebrovascular disease and degenerative diseases of the nervous system is on the rise. In recent years, epilepsy disease has been occurring more and mroe among old people.

 

In China, there are 400,000 new cases of epilepsy every year. China currently has 9 million people suffering from the disease. Among them, 6 million have an epileptic seizure1 every year. Due to insufficient2 medical resources and people’s misunderstanding about the disease, 4 million epileptics not got proper treatment, accounting3 for 63% of the total number of the patients suffeing from epileptic seizures4, Zhang said in Beijing on Wednesday.

 

To diagnose whether a person is an epileptic, doctors have to carry out an electroencephalogram (EEG) of the person before they can make a conclusion. Clinical researches show that with proper medical treatment, 80% of the new patients can avoid epilepsy seizures and 60% of them can recover from the disease after receiving treatment for 2-5 years. However, due to social prejudices, 89% of the patients and 76% of their relatives feel ashamed for the disease.

 

Epileptic seizures often occur without any omens5. Some people become handicapped after getting the disease and in some cases, it is really difficult for them to recover from it. In addition, some patients don’t know why they catch the disease. Epileptics often have to face prejudices in their study, employment, and marriage issues. Sometimes, the high medical costs make them shoulder a heavy financial burden. All these cause some epileptics to feel worried about their disease and inferior to other people. In addition, social prejudices, the imperfect legal system and insufficient medical services might also contribute to their anxiety. So, epilepsy is not only a physical disease, it is also a mental disease, which has now become a public health problem.

 
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1 seizure FsSyO     
n.没收；占有；抵押
参考例句：
  • The seizure of contraband is made by customs.那些走私品是被海关没收的。
  • The courts ordered the seizure of all her property.法院下令查封她所有的财产。
2 insufficient L5vxu     
adj.(for，of)不足的，不够的
参考例句：
  • There was insufficient evidence to convict him.没有足够证据给他定罪。
  • In their day scientific knowledge was insufficient to settle the matter.在他们的时代，科学知识还不能足以解决这些问题。
3 accounting nzSzsY     
n.会计，会计学，借贷对照表
参考例句：
  • A job fell vacant in the accounting department.财会部出现了一个空缺。
  • There's an accounting error in this entry.这笔账目里有差错。
4 seizures d68658a6ccfd246a0e750fdc12689d94     
n.起获( seizure的名词复数 )；没收；充公；起获的赃物
参考例句：
  • Seizures of illicit drugs have increased by 30% this year. 今年违禁药品的扣押增长了30%。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Other causes of unconsciousness predisposing to aspiration lung abscess are convulsive seizures. 造成吸入性肺脓肿昏迷的其他原因，有惊厥发作。 来自辞典例句
5 omens 4fe4cb32de8b61bd4b8036d574e4f48a     
n.前兆，预兆( omen的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • The omens for the game are still not propitious. 这场比赛仍不被看好。 来自辞典例句
  • Such omens betide no good. 这种征兆预示情况不妙。 来自辞典例句

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