不惧埃博拉：美国男子热衷病毒试验

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　　一男子为寻解药特意注射了埃博拉病毒，但他事后没有休息，而是决定去跑马拉松。

　　Peter Hubbard was not contagious³ when he was allowed to go on the run after being injected with elements of the disease on September 9.

　　彼得·哈伯德于9月9日被注射了致病元素，当时他没有传染性，得到允许去参加马拉松。

　　‘I feel great, yeah. In fact, I couldn’t tell where the injection site was thirty minutes after it. I ran a marathon on Sunday. I’m alive and kicking,’ the 35-year-old said while at his Virginia apartment in the United States.

　　“我感觉棒极了，是的。实际上，30分钟后我就找不出注射部位了。星期天我去参加了一场马拉松，我现在活蹦乱跳。”这名35岁的男子在他美国弗吉尼亚的公寓里讲道。

　　Mr Hubbard is part of a low risk trial being ran at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).

　　哈伯德先生是“美国国立卫生研究院”的低风险试验计划的一员。

　　It involves him taking a vaccine⁴ developed in partnership⁵ with GlaxoSmithKline.

　　这包括他要注射和葛兰素史克（英国制药公司）合作开发的一种疫苗。

　　This isn’t the first time Mr Hubbard has helped out with the study of deadly diseases.

　　这不是哈伯德先生第一次参与协助致命疾病的研究。

　　He previously⁶ volunteered to test HIV, H1N1 and malaria⁷ vaccines⁸.

　　之前，他自愿测试过艾滋病病毒, 甲型H1N1流感病毒和疟疾的疫苗。

　　He added: ‘I do have a joke that, that with all of these vaccine trials that I’ve done, that if plague and pestilence⁹ were to sweep throughout the land, I’d be the last man standing¹⁰.’

　　他补充道，“我确实有个玩笑要讲，以我做过的所有这些疫苗试验，如果有天瘟疫席卷大陆，我会是活到最后的人。”

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