Vocabulary

to talk through one's hat; to blow one's own horn

chopped kabayaki eel on rice; eel fillets cooked over charcoal with soy flavoured sauce, cut in small pieces and served on rice

Christmas; Nativity

Christmas

-stopper (thing that halts or prevents something); -blocker; -preventer

right now; just now

to be beyond words; to defy description

to equivocate; to beat around the bush

needless to say; it goes without saying that

rivalry in love; rivalry for the heart of a woman

wooing technique; the way to a man's (woman's) heart

difficult to say which of the two is better; hard to tell which is better; (there is) little to choose between them

to engage in a heated discussion

to look slightly doubtful; to look puzzled; to bend one's head slightly to one side

to make a fool of (someone)

to remain faithful to the memory of one's husband and never remarry

to be a point of honor; to affect someone's good name

West Nile fever

West Nile fever

West Nile virus

flavivirus

Marburg disease; Marburg hemorrhagic fever; green monkey disease

viral hemorrhagic fever

RNA virus

medical error

pathogenic microbe

Serratia marcescens

opportunistic infection

opportunistic pathogen

methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus; MRSA

vancomycin-resistant enterococcus; VRE

infectious disease originating overseas entering the country through an infected traveller or goods

Ebola hemorrhagic fever

bovine spongiform encephalopathy; BSE; mad cow disease

bacteremia (presence of bacteria in the blood); bacteraemia

endocarditis

antimicrobial; antibacterial

Immunization Act

acute disseminated encephalomyelitis; ADEM

beta-lactam (var. of antibiotic)