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No. 197
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All right, I'll start looking into
那我去找找有没有抗病毒剂
whether there are any antivirals for these eight.
可以同时治疗这 8 种病毒
Wait a second. The, the kids on the floor who didn't get sick.
等等 那些同楼层没有得病的孩子
Are any of them still in the hospital?
还在医院吗
They got moved to the fifth floor.
他们被转移到五楼了
But they're probably all checked out by now.
不过现在应该都出院了
No, the Lindpert boy had a bit of jaundice.
没有 林德皮特家的孩子身上有些黄疸
He should be checking out today.
他应该今天出院
I want to test his blood, too.
把他的血液化验一下
Why?
为什么
Cause we need all the information we can get.
我们要获取尽可能多的信息
The healthy kid can be our control group.
健康的孩子可以做对照组
I'll just tell his parents he can't check out
我去告他的父母说他们的孩子得了天花
because he has the smallpox.
暂时还不能出院
All done, all done.
好了 好了
What did we get?
怎么样了
Well, the sick babies all tested positive for Echovirus 11.
患病婴儿对艾柯 11 型病毒检测结果是阳性
Great.
很好
And CMV, and parvovirus B19.
还有巨细胞病毒和细小病毒 B19 均为阳性
Three viruses?
三种病毒的检测结果均为阳性吗
What's weirder, the healthy kid we tested:
更奇怪的 那个健康的孩子检查结果表明
he's positive for Echovirus 11
他对艾柯 11 型病毒
and CMV antibodies as well.
和巨细胞病毒检测结果也为阳性
They're infants.
他们是新生儿
They have their mother's blood, their mother's antibodies.
他们流淌着母亲的血 有着母亲的抗体
So we just learned nothing?
难道我们一无所获吗
Uh-uh. We have half the picture.
我们已经得到初步结果了
The healthy kids survived
健康的孩子得以存活
because their mothers' antibodies saved them.
是因为他们母亲的抗体救了他们
The mom had CMV in the past
如果母亲遭受过巨细胞病毒侵害
she'd have the antibodies for CMV.
她就会产生抗体
The kid would be immune from it.
那么孩子就会对该病毒免疫
So we test the sick kids' moms for Echovirus
那我们该去检验患病儿童母亲体内是否有
CMV, and parvovirus.
艾柯病毒 巨细胞病毒和细小病毒抗体
And whichever they don't have the antibodies for
因此他们所没有的那种病毒抗体
that's what's killing their kids.
就是他们孩子的病因
I'll test the mothers.
我去化验他们母亲的血
——From《House M.D》
重点词汇（Vocabulary）
1.antiviral [ˌæntiˈvaɪrəl] adj. 抗病毒的；抗滤过性病原体的;n. 抗病毒物质; 抗体；抗病毒药2.check out 结账离开;出院3.jaundice [ˈdʒɔːndɪs] n. 黄疸；偏见；乖僻4.control group 实验对照组5.smallpox [ˈsmɔːlpɑːks] n. [内科] 天花
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