Words from the news, explained in easy English. From: Ebola outbreak reaches Nigeria as officials investigate how patient was infected.
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Vocabulary in this episode
- quarantined
You heard “quarantined” in the news.
“Quarantined” means kept away from other people because someone may have an illness.
- quarantined
For example: The school kept the sick children quarantined at home.
The children were kept at home and away from others to help prevent illness from passing on.
- contact-tracing
You heard “contact-tracing” in the news.
Contact-tracing means finding people who were near someone with an illness and checking on them.
- Contact-tracing
For example: Contact-tracing helped the clinic find people who might have been exposed to the infection.
It helped the clinic find people who may have been near the infection and at risk of catching it.
- exposed to
For example: Contact-tracing helped the clinic find people who might have been exposed to the infection.
Here, “exposed to” means possibly having been near the infection and at risk of catching it.