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2015考研英语外刊阅读：Ebola Death Toll in West Africa Passes 1,000
Ebola Death Toll in West Africa Passes 1,000
The World Health Organization said on Monday that the death toll has climbed to 1,013 in the Ebola outbreak that has swept through Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and possibly Nigeria(DAKAR, Senegal) — The World Health Organization says the death toll in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has passed 1,000.The U.N. health agency said in a news release Monday that 1,013 people have died in the outbreak, which has hit Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and possibly Nigeria.Authorities have recorded 1,848 suspected, probable or confirmed cases of the disease, which causes a high fever, vomiting and bleeding. The outbreak was first identified in March in Guinea, but it likely started months earlier.The updated WHO tally includes figures from Aug. 7- 9 when 52 more people died and 69 more were infected.Ebola is highly lethal and there is no licensed vaccine or treatment for the disease, but so far three people infected have received an experimental drug.
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Same-Sex Marriage Ban Survives Challenge in Tennessee
Tennessee’s same-sex marriage ban hassurvived a constitutional challenge in court, the first prohibition to withstand such a challenge in almost 14 months.Roane County Circuit Judge Russell Simmons ruled that “neither the Federal Government nor another state should be allowed to dictate to Tennessee what has traditionally been a state’s responsibility,” in ruling from last Tuesday, SCOTUSblog reports.More than two dozen federal and state court rulings since the Supreme Court’s United States v. Windsor decision in June 2013 have successfully challenged and/or nullified bans. Simmons’ ruling rejects both a claim of discrimination and a claim that the Constitution’s Full Faith and Credit Clause forces the state to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.“The Supreme Court does not go the final step and find that a state that defines marriage as a union of one man and one woman is unconstitutional,” Simmons wrote. “Further, the Supreme Court does not find that one state’s refusal to accept another state’s valid same-sex marriage to be in violation of the U.S. Constitution.”Simmons’ ruling only formally addressed and upheld the part of Tennessee’s ban that doesn’t recognize pre-existing same-sex marriages from other states, though this aspect is now being reviewed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
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