Later,they said he had a weak form of smallpox.
VOA: special.2009.11.19
We know now that it's caused by a related virus, called vaccinia, remember the virus that causes smallpox is called variola.
我们现在知道这病由一种相关的病毒引起,这种病毒叫牛痘病毒,想想天花病毒也被叫做牛痘病毒
The last reported case of smallpox in the-- naturally occurring smallpox, was in 1977, a man in Somalia was infected.
最后一例天花报告,自然产生的天花,是在一九七七年,一个索马里人感染了
He was suffering from smallpox.
VOA: special.2009.11.12
You don't have it, you don't have any immunity to smallpox, you don't have any reason to immunity to smallpox.
你们对天花没有任何免疫力,你没有任何理由能对天花免疫
None of us have seen a case of smallpox, it hasn't existed in the world for many decades now.
我们没人见过天花,在这个世界上它已经被消灭几十年了
There's no company that's making smallpox vaccine anymore because there's no reason to make smallpox vaccine, because nobody would buy it, right?
没有公司还生产天花疫苗,因为没有人购买天花疫苗,因此早就没有理由继续生产它了,对吧
And Jenner made the observation that others had made, that people that were around cows a lot tended not to get smallpox.
詹纳观察到的现象别人也曾观察到,就是经常接触奶牛的人不容易患天花
And he started with a similar but different observation, and that was that cows get a disease that's very similar to smallpox.
他首先观察到一种类似但不同的情况,就是牛得了一种很像天花的病
We've talked about getting lucky, finding a naturally occurring attenuated live vaccine as in the case of smallpox.
我们谈到过,在天花病案中,我们发现自然弱化的活性疫苗,是多么的幸运
And as I mentioned before, death would occur in 20-30 percent of the cases that got the most severe form of smallpox.
就像我刚说的,百分之二十到三十的,天花重症病人会死亡
We started on this topic on Tuesday, particularly emphasizing smallpox and kind of the history of vaccine development.
我们在本周二,重点讨论了天花,以及疫苗的发展历史
Well, there's a whole population of people who are younger than me that never got smallpox vaccines, right?
所有比我小的人,都没有接种过天花疫苗,对吧
There were no reported cases after that, and so by the late '70s, the world was certified sort of free of smallpox worldwide.
在那之后就再也没有过报告,到七十年代晚些时候,已经确认世界各国都摆脱了天花
Okay, so let's talk about the example of smallpox, which is one of the world's great successes in the battle against infectious diseases.
我们现在来谈一谈天花,它是人类与传染病的斗争中,获得的一项伟大胜利
Just to say a little bit about smallpox, because unlike chickenpox, which if you haven't had, you've probably seen a case of it.
我们稍微说一下天花,因为它不像水痘那样,就算你没得过你也见过
So, there's been an active effort to reestablish the process of smallpox vaccination in case that's needed.
为了以防万一,现在正积极重建,能够制造天花疫苗的工艺进程
And so there are famous reports of how the Aztecs, that whole civilization, was devastated by smallpox.
有报道说阿兹特克文明如何发达,但这整个文明,都毁灭于天花
And he was right; they got immunity and were protected from smallpox when it affected their community.
他是对的,当天花在周围流行时,他们具备了对天花的免疫力
And so we'll talk about how that happened in the— using the examples of smallpox and polio.
所以我们会以天花和小儿麻痹症为例,讨论上述目标是如何实现的
Some, like the smallpox vaccine on one exposure generates a very high response that lasts for many years so you don't need a boost.
有一些疫苗,比如接触一次天花疫苗后,人体就能产生高水平的免疫应答,并持续很多年,所以无需再次接种
I think the smallpox vaccine we made now would probably be better, more effective, and safer than the vaccines we made in the '50s.
我相信若我们现在制造天花疫苗,应该会比五十年代的更有效更安全
So, none of you in this room, I'm 100% confident, never ever got a smallpox vaccine.
所以我百分百确信这间教室里所有人,没有一个人接种过天花疫苗
And if smallpox was somehow introduced into a city like New York City, what would happen?
如果向一个城市散布天花,这个城市是纽约的话,会发生什么
Remember that the lucky thing about the smallpox vaccine was that a naturally occurring attenuated form of the smallpox virus variola called vaccinea was found.
对于天花病毒来说,幸运的是,存在一种自然发生的,被称作痘苗病毒的,天花病毒的衰减疫苗
There are still some active smallpox virus specimens kept in the world, and there are two sources of small--two places where smallpox is stored now.
世界上仍有地方保存着,一些具有活性的天花病毒样本,有两个地方还储存着天花病毒样本
And this is what's characteristic of smallpox, is that as the virus spreads through your body, it particularly, it particularly affects cells of your skin.
这是天花的特征,当病毒传遍全身时,它特别的,特别地作用于皮肤细胞
Then you start to get lesions on your skin that are very characteristic of smallpox.
然后你的皮肤就会遭到损害,这就是天花的典型特征
But smallpox was, at one time, one of the most frightening diseases on the planet.
但是天花曾经,是这个星球上最令人恐惧的疾病之一
And I talked about eradicating smallpox in 1977, right when officially the last case was reported, and it was certified to be eradicated shortly after that.
我刚刚已经讲了一九七七年根除天花,当时发布了最后一例官方报告,自此之后,天花已经确认根除
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