新托福阅读材料：Perubattlesrabidvampirebatsafter500peoplebitten

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在文学和影视作品里，吸血鬼都是一种令人闻风丧胆的生物，而在现实生活中，吸血蝙蝠也夺去了许多人的生命。在秘鲁偏僻的亚马逊丛林地区，吸血蝙蝠咬人造成狂犬病暴发。而有专家称，吸血蝙蝠的这些攻击行为与人类对丛林的过度砍伐有关。  
　　Peru's health ministry has sent emergency teams to a remote Amazon region to battle an outbreak of rabies spread by vampire bats.

　　Four children in the Awajun indigenous tribe died after being bitten by the bloodsucking mammals.
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. v7 {3 M+ G7 d　　Health workers have given rabies vaccine to more than 500 people who have also been attacked.

* X  v+ r. c  L1 U0 b　　Some experts have linked mass vampire bat attacks on people in the Amazon to deforestation.

1 E  p, Q; [" `　　The rabies outbreak is focused on the community of Urakusa in the north-eastern Peruvian Amazon, close to the border with Ecuador.

　　The indigenous community appealed for help after being unable to explain the illness that had killed the children.
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! Q) \) C4 B0 Y/ H  \0 J　　The health ministry said it had sent three medical teams to treat and vaccinate people who had been bitten.
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　　Most of the affected population had now been vaccinated, it said, although a few had refused treatment.

" y7 {2 l1 b, R8 d" y& B　　Vampire bats usually feed on wildlife or livestock, but are sometimes known to turn to humans for food, particularly in areas where their rainforest habitat has been destroyed.
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" T9 e% w! G9 n% R4 r　　Some local people have suggested this latest outbreak of attacks may be linked to the unusually low temperatures the Peruvian Amazon in recent years.