CNN News:埃博拉病毒的一些疑问和答案

Welcome to CNN STUDENT NEWS on this Monday, October 13. I`m Carl Azuz. We are starting with some questions and some answers about the Ebola virus. A healthcare worker in Dallas, Texas has tested positive for the disease. This is the second time Ebola has been diagnosed in the U.S., but the nurse who caught it had not traveled to West Africa where the outbreak is. She works at the hospital where Liberian man died last week from Ebola. And she`d had extensive contact with him.

欢迎收看本周一CNN学生新闻，今天是10月13号，我是Carl Azuz。今天我们以关于埃博拉一些问答和答案开始今天的新闻。德克萨斯州达拉斯一位医疗工作人员经检测感染埃博拉病毒。这是美国出现的第二位确诊病例，但是感染护士并没有去过受疫情影响的西非国家。她在治疗感染埃博拉病毒的利比亚人医院工作，该患者于上周去世。并且她与患者有着广泛的接触。

Health officials say she wore protective clothing, gowns, gloves, a mask and a shield. But there had been a "breech of protocol" at some point. We don`t know exactly what that was. We are getting a lot of questions from you about how someone can touch the Ebola virus. This is what health officials are saying.

卫生部门官员称护士在对患者进行治疗是穿着防护服，长罩袍，手套，面具和护罩。但是在某些方面有补充协议，这点我们还不是很清楚。从护士身上我们产生了很多关于人是如何感染上埃博拉病毒的疑问。这是卫生部门官员的话。

The clock ticking from the moment the Ebola virus enters the body. The disease not easy to contract, only carried in bodily fluids. And it can only enter the body through direct contact with cuts or abrasions on the skin or through the eyes, nose, mouth, throat or reproductive organs. People can also get infected when eating meat from or coming in contact with contaminated animals.

当埃博拉病毒侵入人体之后死亡时钟开始计时。接触这种病毒并不容易，只有通过体液才可以接触到。并且该病毒进入人体只能通过人体直接接触伤口或者擦伤皮肤，或者通过眼睛，鼻子，嘴，喉咙或者生殖器官进入人体。同样当人们吃肉或者已经被污染动物肉类时也会被感染。

The virus can survive several hours in a dried state on door knobs or countertops if the fluid remains wet and at room temperature it can survive for days outside the body.

病毒在干燥的门把手或者台面上可以存活数小时时间，如果液体保持湿润，达到室温的话可以在体外存活数天时间。

Most people get it through contact with bodily fluids of patients or the diseased.

大多数人都是通过与患者体液接触或者含有病毒的液体接触后感染该病毒的。

But when is someone with Ebola actually contagious? The short answer, when they start to show symptoms. Those symptoms, though, can take from two to 21 days to kick in. In other words, a person can travel and interact with others for days or weeks without passing on the virus.

但是真正埃博拉病毒传染到人体的时候是什么时候?简而言之，当感染患者出现该病症的时候就是埃博拉病毒在体内扩散的时候。这些症状可以在体内存在2到21天的时间。换句话说就是一个人可以通过旅游，与其他人进行数天或者数周的接触。

The average incubation period is eight to ten days.

通常情况下病毒潜伏期为8到10天时间。

The early symptoms of a disease fever, weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat are often mistaken for the flu, malaria, typhoid fever or dysentery.

该病早期症状为发烧，无力，肌肉疼痛，头疼和喉咙痛，通常会被认为流感，疟疾，伤寒或者痢疾等病症。

But then things get worse. Vomiting, bloody diarrhea, often internal and external bleeding, skin rashes and purple spots on the skin. The death rate is high, 50 to 90 percent chance of death depending on the strain and access to medical care.

但是过后事情会变得越来越糟。呕吐，腹泻，经常内外出血，皮肤开始出皮疹和紫色斑点。这种疾病死亡率非常高，高达50%到90%，当然也取决于当地的医疗条件。

If an infected patient with a strong immune system gets proper care the chance of surviving goes up. And if you survive you have immunity for at least ten years, but what`s still unknown, if you are immune from other strains of Ebola. Answers and questions for a frightening disease.

如果一位免疫系统非常强壮的人感染该病毒的话，在得到妥善照顾之后幸存的机会会上升。如果幸存的话，至少在十年内不会再受次病毒的侵扰。但是这也是未知的，你也可能会感染埃博拉病毒的替他菌株。以上就是关于埃博拉病毒的一些问题和答案。