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A note said the anonymous package contained deadly bacterial anthrax.
一個(gè)便條上寫著，匿名包裹中含有致命的細(xì)菌炭疽。
Toxic material teams were called out.
毒性物質(zhì)小組出動(dòng)了。
People who'd handled the package were decontaminated and rushed to hospitals.
拿過包裹的人接受消毒后被送往醫(yī)院。
Authorities took no chances.
當(dāng)局不會(huì)冒任何風(fēng)險(xiǎn)。
A couple hundred pounds of anthrax could kill up to three million people.
數(shù)百磅的炭疽可以殺死300萬人。
This time in this day it was a false alarm.
今天這一次是虛驚一場(chǎng)。
This is what they were worried about.
這是他們所擔(dān)心的事情。
Saddam Hussein spent as much as 100 million dollars developing Iraq's biological weapons.
薩達(dá)姆·侯賽因花費(fèi)高達(dá)1億美元開發(fā)伊拉克的生物武器。
By the time Iraq invaded Kuwait Hussein had cultures of anthrax and enough poison from the bacterium
伊拉克入侵科威特時(shí)，侯賽因已經(jīng)培養(yǎng)出炭疽菌和足夠的毒素，
that causes botulism to kill every person on the planet.
這種細(xì)菌能導(dǎo)致肉毒桿菌中毒，從而殺死地球上的所有人。
During the Persian Gulf War, part of the supply had been deployed in missiles and Iraqi commanders had authorization to fire.
波斯灣戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)期間，部分補(bǔ)給已部署在導(dǎo)彈上，伊拉克指揮官獲準(zhǔn)開火。
Then the war was over.
后來戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)結(jié)束了。
The United Nations destroyed the facilities where the toxin was made.
聯(lián)合國(guó)摧毀了制造毒素的設(shè)施。
Even without the germs of war, people are frightened by the diseases caused by bacterial.
即使沒有細(xì)菌戰(zhàn)，人們也被細(xì)菌引起的疾病嚇壞了。
Pneumonia, Salmonella, meningitis all caused by bacteria and passed among us every day.
肺炎、沙門氏菌、腦膜炎都是由細(xì)菌所致，它們每天都在我們中間傳播。
Infectious disease is the greatest cause of illness and death in human history.
傳染病是人類歷史上導(dǎo)致疾病和死亡的最大原因。
It is now the third highest cause of death in the United States.
現(xiàn)在，它是美國(guó)第三大死亡原因。
Bacteria can make us deathly sick and often kill us.
細(xì)菌能使我們病入膏肓，還經(jīng)常讓我們致命。
And just when we develop medicines to kill the germs, they do what they do best mutate to resist our medicines.
就在我們研發(fā)出殺菌藥物時(shí)，細(xì)菌卻盡最大努力進(jìn)行變異以抵抗我們的藥物。
We are destined to always live with microorganisms.
我們注定永遠(yuǎn)會(huì)和微生物生活在一起。
And the concept that we will eradicate microorganisms,
關(guān)于我們將根除微生物的概念，
you can wash to your heart's content, but you won't rid your skin of microorganisms.
你可以凈化內(nèi)心，但卻無法去除皮膚上的微生物。
And you can scrub to your cards content, you won't rid your mouth of bacteria.
你可以擦掉卡片上的內(nèi)容，卻無法去除口腔中的細(xì)菌。
And there are other things that we know about that bacteria are constantly present.
我們還知道，細(xì)菌持續(xù)存在。
Our intestinal tract is one great fermentation tube and it's constantly gurgling and grinding and converting things.
我們的腸道是一根很棒的發(fā)酵管道，它不斷地咕嘟，把食物磨碎并將其轉(zhuǎn)化。
We absolutely depend on these things and there's no way out of it.
我們完全依賴這些東西，沒辦法擺脫它。
