CNN News:美国七州出现黑死病患者

In the mid-1300s, no disease or war was known to have killed as many people as the Black Death did in Europe. That's why you studied the plague in world history.

在14世纪中期，没有任何疾病或战争所杀害的人数可以与欧洲的黑死病相比。这就是为什么要在世界历史中学习黑死病的原因。

What's surprising to a lot of people was that the plague is still around and can still be deadly. Twelve cases in seven states have been reported so far this year in the U.S. Out of those 12, four people have died, including an elderly man in Utah. Officials are trying to figure out how he got it.

让很多人感到吃惊的是，这场瘟疫仍然存在，并可以致命。据报道，目前美国有七个州已经出现了12例病患。其中有4人死亡，而一位是犹他州的一位老人。官员们正试图查明这位老人是如何患上瘟疫的。

U.S. health officials say other cases in California and Georgia were linked to people who traveled in or near Yosemite National Park. The plague usually turns up between late spring and early fall and usually in rural parts of western states like New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado.

美国的卫生官员说：加州和乔治亚州的其他几例病患都是到约瑟米蒂国家公园或其附近旅游的人们。这种瘟疫通常出现在晚春或初秋。通常见于西部(例如亚利桑那州、科罗拉多州)的农村地区。

ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: The plague is caused by a bacteria called Yersinia pestis, and most of the time, humans get it from a flea bite.

伊莉萨白,CNN 资深医学记者：这种瘟疫是由一种叫做鼠疫耶尔森菌的细菌引起的。并且通常人类得这种病是因为被跳蚤咬而引起的。

Back when plague was rampant and there was no treatment for it, plague could get into people's blood and it could turn their limps black and that's where we get the term "Black Death".

过去这种瘟疫流行猖獗，没有的治疗方法，它能够进入人体的血液，人体会四肢发黑，因此这种瘟疫被称为“黑死病”。

When the plague struck the Roman Empire in the 6th century, it went on to kill 25 million people. Eventually, the plague wiped out 60 percent of Europe.

6世纪罗马帝国被这种疾病席卷，2500万人丧生。最终，这场瘟疫杀死了欧洲60%的人口。

Now, before there were antibiotics,Please visit www.chinavoa.com to get more information. the plague would kill 66 percent to 93 percent of people who got it. Now, with antibiotics, that mortality rate goes to about 16 percent.

现在，没有抗生素时，感染这种瘟疫的人群死亡率在66%至93%。现在，用抗生素治疗，死亡率约为16%。

So, typically every year in the United States, one person dies of the plague and seven people get sick.

所以，一般在美国每年都会有一人死于这种疾病，7人感染。

Fever, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting. If you get these systems and you're living in an area where it's known that the plague has been before, then you should go seek help from your doctor, and you should definitely go to your doctor if you develop huge lymph nodes. Sometime people with the plague, they get lymph nodes the size of a chicken egg.

发烧、腹痛、恶心，呕吐。如果出现这些症状，并且你的居住地以前流行过这种疾病，那么就应该去咨询医生了。如果出现淋巴结肿大，那么更应该去看医生。有时，患这种病的人，淋巴结肿的像鸡蛋那么大。

Also, the Centers for Disease Control says you should never feed rodents like squirrels and rats and you certainly shouldn't touch them after they died.

同时疾控中心称，千万不要去喂养一些啮齿类动物，例如松鼠、老鼠等，而且千万不要触摸这些动物的死尸。

We've done a great job of getting rid of the plague almost entirely in this country, that our hygiene goes a long way. But you can't entirely get rid of the bacteria. It's not just the Dark Ages' bacteria, it's still with us.

在美国，我们已经做了大量的工作来摆脱这种疾病，我们的医疗卫生也取得了重大的进展。但是我们仍无法完全摆脱这种疾病。它不仅是黑暗时代的细菌，它还一直在我们身边。