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Usually this occurs when a wild flu virus circulating in ducks and farm poultry
通常這會發生在的強烈的傳染性病毒在鴨群和農畜中不斷傳播，
meets a pig virus, and they exchange genes.
遇上了豬流感，它們轉變了基因。
This process is known as antigenic shift and has occurred throughout human history.
這一過程就是眾所周知的抗原轉移，并貫穿在整個人類歷史。
The first recorded pandemic occurred in 1580.
第一個被記錄的流行病是在1580年。
The 18th and 19th centuries saw at least six further pandemics.
在18和19世紀生活的人見證了至少六種以上的流行病。
In terms of mortality, none can compare with the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918.
但在死亡率方面，沒有什么能與1918年的大流感比擬。
The first indication of the pandemic came in the spring,
第一次大流感爆發的跡象是在春季，
when American troops in northern France began complaining of chills, headaches and fever.
當時美軍在法國北部，軍士們開始抱怨寒冷，頭痛和發熱。
Then, the following September, at a U.S. Army barracks near Boston,
然后，在接下來的九月份，在美國波士頓軍營中，
soldiers started collapsing on parade, prompting their removal to the camp infirmary.
士兵們開始崩潰，他們被轉移到到軍醫處。
As a surgeon there recalled, two hours after admission, they had the mahogany spots over the cheekbones
外科醫生被召到軍醫處，入院后的兩個小時，他們的顴骨已經有了紅褐色的斑點。
and a few hours later you can begin to see the cyanosis extending from their ears and spreading all over the face.
再過幾個小時，你們就能看見黃萎病已經蔓延到他們的耳朵，還遍布了全臉。
It is only a matter of a few hours then until death comes,
這離他們病逝只是幾個小時的時間，
and it is simply a struggle for air until they suffocate.
他們一般會因為呼吸困難最終窒息而死。
On the S.S. Leviathan, a huge American transport en route to Bordeaux,
在利維坦輪船--一艘開往波爾多的美國運輸輪上
sick men hemorrhaged blood from their noses, turning the decks between their bunks slick with bodily fluids.
病人鼻孔出血，把甲板都變成了充滿體液的光滑床鋪。
