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Imagine that you're a pig farmer. You live on a small farm in the Philippines.
想象你是一個養豬戶。你住在一個菲律賓的小農場。
Your animals are your family's sole source of income -- as long as they're healthy.
你的牲口是家庭唯一的收入來源--只要它們是健康的。
You know that any day, one of your pigs can catch the flu, the swine flu.
你知道任意一天，你的豬都有可能感染流感，豬流感。
Living in tight quarters, one pig coughing and sneezing may soon lead to the next pig coughing and sneezing,
住在狹小的豬圈，一只豬的咳嗽和噴嚏很可能馬上感染另一只豬，
until an outbreak of swine flu has taken over your farm.
直至感染你的整個豬圈。
If it's a bad enough virus, the health of your herd may be gone in the blink of an eye.
如果是一個十分嚴重的病毒，你豬圈里的豬將迅速被傳染，無一幸免。
If you called in a veterinarian, he or she would visit your farm and take samples from your pigs' noses and mouths.
如果你叫來一個獸醫，他會拜訪你的農場，并且在豬的鼻腔和口腔內取樣。
But then they would have to drive back into the city to test those samples in their central lab.
但之后他們會開車回到城里，在他們的實驗室里檢測那些樣品。
Two weeks later, you'd hear back the results.
兩周后，你會收到檢測結果。
Two weeks may be just enough time for infection to spread and take away your way of life.
而兩周時間足以讓疫情蔓延，奪走你的生計。
But it doesn't have to be that way. Today, farmers can take those samples themselves.
但現實并不一定會這么糟。如今，農戶們可以自己采集那些樣本。
They can jump right into the pen and swab their pigs' noses and mouths with a little filter paper,
他們可以直接進入豬圈中，用一張小小的濾紙在豬的鼻子和口腔中取樣，
place that little filter paper in a tiny tube,
將這張濾紙放在一個小試管中，
and mix it with some chemicals that will extract genetic material from their pigs' noses and mouths.
和一些化學物質混合起來，提取出他們從豬的鼻子和口腔中得到的遺傳物質。
And without leaving their farms, they take a drop of that genetic material and put it into a little analyzer smaller than a shoebox,
不用離開他們的農場，他們要做的只是將一滴遺傳物質放入一個比鞋盒還小的分析儀中，
program it to detect DNA or RNA from the swine flu virus, and within one hour get back the results, visualize the results.
設定程序分析豬流感病毒的DNA或者RNA，只1個小時內便可以取回結果，看到是否感染。
This reality is possible because today we're living in the era of personal DNA technology.
我并非是在夸大其實，因為如今我們生活在個體DNA技術的時代。
Every one of us can actually test DNA ourselves.
每個人都能檢測我們自己的DNA。
