Name: 1976年的埃博拉疫情｜病毒式傳播 (The Ebola Outbreak of 1976 | Going Viral)
Uploaded: 2020-11-12T18:17:30.000Z
Duration: 5 min 35 s

NARRATOR: In 1976, a deadly illness erupted

旁白：1976年，一場致命的疾病爆發了

Belgian nuns tending to the sick described horrific symptoms

比利時照顧病人的修女描述了可怕的症狀。

REID WILSON: It attacks tissue around the body.

It basically attacks everything in the human body

NARRATOR: Doctors from Zaire, Europe, and America

旁白：來自薩伊、歐洲和美國的醫生們。

traveled to the epicenter to investigate.

they had no idea what they were looking at.

but they learned how it spread so quickly.

但他們知道了它是如何迅速傳播的。

This virus had an astounding mortality rate of nearly 90%.

這種病毒的死亡率達到了驚人的近90%。

In less than two months, it claimed some 300 lives.

在不到兩個月的時間裡，它奪走了大約300條生命。

Then suddenly, the nightmare ended, and no one knew why.

然後突然，噩夢結束了，沒有人知道為什麼。

NANCY JAAX: They just knew the virus popped out of nowhere,

他們只知道病毒是突然冒出來的。

NARRATOR: Epidemiologists named Ebola Zaire

旁白：流行病學家將埃博拉命名為 "薩伊"。

after the nearby Ebola river and dreaded its return,

在附近的埃博拉河之後，又怕它回來。

which it did in just a few relatively contained

But the greatest fear was that someday the virus

會出現在一個人口稠密的地方。

REID WILSON: So back in 1989, in the Washington suburb

of Reston, all of a sudden, a bunch of monkeys at a warehouse

在雷斯頓，突然，一群猴子在一個倉庫

Virginia, one of the largest animal testing

弗吉尼亞州，最大的動物測試之一

The illness quickly spread to dozens of monkeys.

病情很快蔓延到幾十只猴子身上。

sent samples to a high security lab run by the military, a US

將樣品送到軍方管理的高安全實驗室，美國的一個。

Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases,

Lieutenant Colonel Nancy Jaax examined the tissues.

NANCY JAAX: What we found then was really pretty alarming.

南希-賈克斯：我們當時發現的情況真的很令人震驚。

我看到所有這些非常大的細胞 --

is very typical in a filovirus infection.

在絲狀病毒感染中是非常典型的。

NARRATOR: A filovirus, a tiny spaghetti-like strand

絲狀病毒是一種細小的意大利麵條狀的鏈子

She worked behind layers of bomb resistant walls

where the army stored an archive of frozen killers.

軍隊在那裡儲存了一個冷凍殺手的檔案。

--and the most lethal of all, Ebola Zaire.

賈克斯博士用她藏匿的絲狀病毒...

to compare it to the monkey sample, and to her surprise,

來與猴子的樣本進行比較，令她感到驚訝的是。

We're thinking, well, that's not possible we

我們在想，好吧，這是不可能的，我們。

And they checked it three times, and every time,

他們檢查了三次，每次都是如此。

它對薩伊的埃博拉病毒呈陽性。

JERRY JAAX: I think Nancy came to my office and said--

JERRY JAAX: --you're not going to believe what just happened.

You know, it looks like we've got Ebola virus

你知道，看起來我們已經得到了埃博拉病毒。

There was a lot of confusion and going, oh, wow.

NANCY JAAX: We immediately had to kick into high gear.

南希-賈克斯：我們立即不得不啟動高速運轉。

NARRATOR: The army formed the battle plan.

The first order, euthanize the monkeys to prevent an epidemic.

第一道命令，將猴子安樂死，防止疫情發生。

Nancy's husband, Colonel Jerry Jaax, led the team.

南希的丈夫傑瑞-賈克斯上校帶領團隊。

JERRY JAAX: Nobody likes killing monkeys,

It was something that we had to do to make sure

這是我們必須要做的事情，以確保。

that we didn't have a significant outbreak

And they soon realized this strain of Ebola

而他們很快就意識到這種埃博拉病毒的菌株

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