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科学美国人60秒:埃博拉疫情-托福听力下载

2017-01-16 18:15:53来源：科学美国人60秒

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　　科学美国人60秒中英文翻译：埃博拉疫情

　　科学美国人60秒英文文本

　　This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.

　　Ebola outbreaks before the most recent one have been fairly contained: geographically limited, and just a couple hundred cases. The latest outbreak, though, which started in late 2013 and lasted more than two years, was entirely different. "There were almost 30,000 cases." Jeremy Luban, a virologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. "You could argue this was the first actual epidemic."

　　Luban and his colleagues studied publicly available data on the evolutionary "family tree" of the Ebola virus during the latest outbreak—how the strains mutated and changed over time. "And one in particular caught our attention. It arose early in the epidemic, and it's the only form of the virus that persisted beyond that point."

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　　This mutant strain was armed with an alteration in the protein it uses to enter cells. What Luban's team found was that the modified protein actually made the strain more infectious to the cells of humans and other primates—but not to other mammals. The study is in the journal Cell.

　　Luban says it's unclear whether this increased infectivity helped drive the outbreak to epidemic proportions. Or whether the length and size of the epidemic simply allowed for more virulent strains like this one to appear. Still, he says, studying these strains helps us understand how the virus infects—and replicates. "That may help us treat infections in the future, to develop therapies, or to develop vaccines to block an infection." In other words: know thy enemy.

　　Thanks for listening for Scientific American — 60-Second Science Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.

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