CNN News: 埃博拉不會通過空氣傳播

Is Ebola airborne?

埃博拉可以通過空氣傳播嗎?

The answer is no, it’s not. But today, I want to take just a couple of minutes and show you why not. I think you’re going to find this really interesting.

答案是否定的。但是今天，我想花幾分鐘時間告訴你們?yōu)槭裁床豢梢?。我想你會發(fā)現(xiàn)這很有趣。

A lot of viruses when they’re circulating through the air, if you breathe them in, part of the reason they actually make you sick is because they stick to your airways. Just imagine this is your airway for example and this is one of those viruses. Put that in there, pour through, it’s actually staying. Imagine that virus now staying in your lungs.

很多病毒在空氣中傳播時，如果你吸入它們，你會生病的部分原因是因為它們會粘在你的呼吸道上。想象一下這是你的氣道，這是其中一種病毒。把它放進去，倒進去，它就在這里。想象一下，病毒現(xiàn)在留在你的肺里。

Ebola though doesn’t act that way. It’s not as sticky. So, if you were to breathe in an Ebola virus, it might look something like this, and put it through your airway here, watch what happens. Goes right through. It doesn’t stick in your airway and that’s why it’s not airborne, doesn’t make you sick.

但埃博拉病毒并不會。它不具有粘性。所以，如果你吸入了埃博拉病毒，它可能看起來像這樣，然后通過你的呼吸道，觀察會發(fā)生什么。穿過。它不會黏在你的氣道上這就是為什么它不會通過空氣傳播的原因.

There’s another reason Ebola isn’t airborne either and I want to show you this.

埃博拉不會通過空氣傳播的另外一個原因是我想給各位展示一下這個.

When you think about cold viruses or flu viruses, oftentimes, they act a bit like a powder. Think of that. This powder sort of in the air, people can breathe it in, but they can also live on surfaces for days, even weeks, that’s in part what makes it airborne.

當你想到感冒病毒或流感病毒時，它們一般有點像粉末。想一想。這種粉末在空氣中，人們可以吸入它，但它們也可以在肺表面上生存幾天，甚至幾周，這是病毒在空氣中傳播的部分原因。

Instead with Ebola, it’s more like this baseball. You think about a baseball, you can put this in the air as well, but see what’s going to happen pretty quickly, it’s just going to drop to the ground, and it’s not going to get anybody sick.

但是埃博拉病毒正好相反,想象一下一個棒球, 你也可以把它放在空中，但是看看會發(fā)生什么,很快，它會掉到地上(而不會附著)，所以埃博拉病毒不會通過空氣傳播感染。