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Drug-resistant bacteria that seem to have come from south Asia have caught the attention of researchers.
應該是來南亞地區的一種具有抗藥性的細菌引起了研究人員的注意。

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Lawrence McGinty now shows us that the bacteria seem to be unaffected by even the most powerful antibiotics. Here's his report.
勞倫斯．麥金堤要帶我們看看，這種細菌似乎連最強效的抗生素都奈何不了它。請看以下的報導。

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This bug is common enough. We've all heard of it, e. coli. But now scientists have found e. coli and another bacterium called Klebsiella
這種細菌再普通不過了。我們都聽說過大腸桿菌，但現在科學家發現大腸桿菌和另一種名叫克雷伯氏桿菌的細菌

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that contain a gene that makes them super bugs -- makes them resistant to almost all antibiotics.
都帶有一種讓它們成為超級細菌的基因，使它們可以抵抗幾乎所有的抗生素。

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What we're seeing here isn't the spread of a single super bug, rather, it's the spread of resistance between bacteria.
我們所看到的並非是單一超級菌種的散播，而是細菌在彼此間散播抗藥性。

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And this resistance includes the carbapenems, which had been the most powerful,
而這種抗藥性包括對威力最強的碳青霉烯類抗生素在內。

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most reliable antibiotics in many infections caused by what we call Gram-negative bacteria, bacteria like e. coli and Klebsia (klebsiella).
碳青霉烯類抗生素是許多因格蘭氏陰性菌類而引發的感染案例中最有效的抗生素，比方像大腸桿菌以及克雷伯氏菌等。

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What's happening as this resistance spreads is that infections caused by these bacteria become much harder to treat.
這種抗藥性散播後的結果，會使這類細菌變得更難對付。

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Scientists say the new gene produces an enzyme that kills all known antibiotics apart from two,
科學家說，該種新基因會製造出一種可以殺死除了兩種抗生素以外所有已知抗生素的酵素。

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and what's really scaring them is that bacteria can pass on the gene very easily.
真正讓科學家們感到害怕的是這些細菌可以很輕易地便將基因傳遞給後代。

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Some doctors, however, say it's all happened before, and antibiotic resistant bacteria haven't cause (shouldn't it be "caused") Armageddon.
不過，有些科學家卻說，這些情況以往都曾經發生過，對抗生素具有抗藥性的細菌並未造成世界末日。

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We have these scares that come around from time to time. And I think a degree of skepticism is in order about them.
這一類的恐慌時不時地就會在我們生活中出現。我認為我們應該要在某種程度上對這類恐懼存疑。

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There's always been a fear of the emergence of some bug which is resistant to antibiotics, and that is a problem from time to time.
大家永遠都會害怕會有某種對抗生素具有抗藥性的細菌出現，從以前到現在都有這樣的問題。

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It's a problem for the public health and infectious diseases people.
這個問題要留待公共衛生和傳染性疾病的專家來解決。

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But mercifully, this seems to be a very rare infection, and there's no sign of it spreading with any kind of rapidity.
不過幸好這次的感染事件似乎相當罕見，也並沒有跡象顯示該種細菌正在快速蔓延中。

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So, most people don't need to be unduly concerned about it.
所以，大多數人都不必對它感到過度憂慮。

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Indeed, scientists and doctors have been waiting for it to happen.
的確，科學家和醫生都在等待這樣的事情發生。

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Air travel makes it almost inevitable that new bugs and resistance to antibiotics spread more rapidly. 
空中旅行幾乎無可避免地造成新菌種和抗藥性以更快的速度散播。

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This one has been tracked to hospitals in India, where health tourists from Britain have received kidney transplants and other operations. 
經過追蹤，這次的細菌來自印度的醫院，來自英國的醫療觀光客在當地接受了腎臟移植和其它手術。

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There are still two effective antibiotics,
目前仍然有兩種有效的抗生素，

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but doctors say we have a ten year window to figure out new ways of attacking the resistant bugs before they take a real grip.
但醫生說，在這類抗藥細菌開始真正站穩腳步之前，人類有十年的時間研究出攻擊這類細菌的新方法。