AIDS research

　　艾滋病研究

　　Cured of HIV?

　　HIV感染者被治愈了?

　　An American child seems to have been

　　美國HIV感染幼童似乎真是如此

　　IN JOURNALISM, cynics suggest, three data points are enough for a trend.

　　憤世之士認為，在資訊界里三個數據點就足以確定一條曲線走勢。

　　As of March 4th, AIDS researchers hope two might be sufficient.

　　然而在3月4日，艾滋病研究人員卻滿懷信心地認為，也許兩個數據點就足夠了。

　　On that day Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins University announced to the Conference onRetroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, in Atlanta, Georgia, that a patient under her carehad been cured of HIV infection.

　　約翰斯霍普金斯大學的黛博拉佩爾紹德于當日在佐治亞州亞特蘭大的逆轉錄病毒和機會感染會議上宣布，她負責的一個感染HIV的病人已被治愈。

　　The announcement was hedged withcaveats.

　　說是治愈，其實是有一定前提。

　　But the bottom line was clear.

　　但最關鍵的信息已經很明確了。

　　Dr Persaud thinks her patient, a two-and-a-half-year-old girl, has joined Timothy Brown, aman known to many as the Berlin patient, as a human who was once infected with HIV andnow no longer is.

　　佩爾紹德博士認為，她的患者一名兩歲半的女嬰和柏林病人蒂莫西布朗一樣，雖然曾經感染了HIV，但現在已經康復了。

　　The girl was born infected because her mother was infected but was not under treatment atthe time.

　　這名女嬰的母親是HIV病毒攜帶者，但她錯過了治療時間，所以該女嬰一出生就感染了病毒。

　　She was given standard anti-retroviral drugs almost immediately and for 18 monthsafterwards.

　　之后女嬰立即接受了抗逆轉錄病毒治療，治療持續了18個月。

　　Doctors then lost track of her for five months and when she returned to their attention, theyfound the virus had vanished.

　　隨后的五個月里，醫生與女嬰失去聯系。當她再次返回接受治療時，醫生們發現她體內的病毒已經消失了。

　　Half a year later, despite the fact that she is no longer taking anti-AIDS medicine, there is nosign of HIV having returned.

　　半年后，女嬰體內也檢測不到HIV的跡象，盡管在這期間內她已停止服用抗艾滋病藥物。

　　This is a result of great potential significance.

　　這個結果可能帶來重大意義。

　　Mr Brown s cure was effected because his bone marrow was destroyed and replaced during acourse of treatment for leukaemia.

　　布朗治愈案例之所以成功，是因為他在白血病治療中，骨髓先被損毀，然后進行了替換。

　　That is hardly a viable approach for most people.

　　這種途徑對大多數人來說幾乎不可行。

　　But if HIV infection can be cured with drugs, as Dr Persaud s observations suggest, a wholenew line of investigation opens up.

　　但如果誠如佩爾紹德博士的觀察所示，HIV感染者能夠通過藥物治療痊愈，那么它就為艾滋病研究打開了一條全新的思路。

　　詞語解釋

　　1.seem to 似乎

　　Financial markets seem to agree.

　　金融市場似乎也證實了這一點。

　　Investors seem to have noticed.

　　投資者似乎也注意到了。

　　2.hedge with 對沖

　　We came to a hedge with a gate in it.

　　我們來到一個有門的圍籬那兒。

　　She thwacked the hedge with her stick in a bad-tem-pered way.

　　她生氣地用手杖敲打籬笆。

　　3.infect with 把傳染給使充滿

　　To attack or infect with canker.

　　使患潰瘍以潰瘍攻擊或感染。

　　In 1997 there were lofty hopes hong kong would somehow infect the mainland with itsrelative freedoms.

　　1997年，有些人懷有遠大的愿望，即香港的相對自由將對內地產生一些感染。

　　4.return to 返回;重新恢復

　　But we return to this theme shortly.

　　我們將很快回到這個主題。

　　Demanding a return to growth won t cut it.

　　對恢復發展的要求不會對此有所削減。

　　AIDS research

　　艾滋病研究

　　Cured of HIV?

　　HIV感染者被治愈了?

　　An American child seems to have been

　　美國HIV感染幼童似乎真是如此

　　IN JOURNALISM, cynics suggest, three data points are enough for a trend.

　　憤世之士認為，在資訊界里三個數據點就足以確定一條曲線走勢。

　　As of March 4th, AIDS researchers hope two might be sufficient.

　　然而在3月4日，艾滋病研究人員卻滿懷信心地認為，也許兩個數據點就足夠了。

　　On that day Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins University announced to the Conference onRetroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, in Atlanta, Georgia, that a patient under her carehad been cured of HIV infection.

　　約翰斯霍普金斯大學的黛博拉佩爾紹德于當日在佐治亞州亞特蘭大的逆轉錄病毒和機會感染會議上宣布，她負責的一個感染HIV的病人已被治愈。

　　The announcement was hedged withcaveats.

　　說是治愈，其實是有一定前提。

　　But the bottom line was clear.

　　但最關鍵的信息已經很明確了。

　　Dr Persaud thinks her patient, a two-and-a-half-year-old girl, has joined Timothy Brown, aman known to many as the Berlin patient, as a human who was once infected with HIV andnow no longer is.

　　佩爾紹德博士認為，她的患者一名兩歲半的女嬰和柏林病人蒂莫西布朗一樣，雖然曾經感染了HIV，但現在已經康復了。

　　The girl was born infected because her mother was infected but was not under treatment atthe time.

　　這名女嬰的母親是HIV病毒攜帶者，但她錯過了治療時間，所以該女嬰一出生就感染了病毒。

　　She was given standard anti-retroviral drugs almost immediately and for 18 monthsafterwards.

　　之后女嬰立即接受了抗逆轉錄病毒治療，治療持續了18個月。

　　Doctors then lost track of her for five months and when she returned to their attention, theyfound the virus had vanished.

　　隨后的五個月里，醫生與女嬰失去聯系。當她再次返回接受治療時，醫生們發現她體內的病毒已經消失了。

　　Half a year later, despite the fact that she is no longer taking anti-AIDS medicine, there is nosign of HIV having returned.

　　半年后，女嬰體內也檢測不到HIV的跡象，盡管在這期間內她已停止服用抗艾滋病藥物。

　　This is a result of great potential significance.

　　這個結果可能帶來重大意義。

　　Mr Brown s cure was effected because his bone marrow was destroyed and replaced during acourse of treatment for leukaemia.

　　布朗治愈案例之所以成功，是因為他在白血病治療中，骨髓先被損毀，然后進行了替換。

　　That is hardly a viable approach for most people.

　　這種途徑對大多數人來說幾乎不可行。

　　But if HIV infection can be cured with drugs, as Dr Persaud s observations suggest, a wholenew line of investigation opens up.

　　但如果誠如佩爾紹德博士的觀察所示，HIV感染者能夠通過藥物治療痊愈，那么它就為艾滋病研究打開了一條全新的思路。

　　詞語解釋

　　1.seem to 似乎

　　Financial markets seem to agree.

　　金融市場似乎也證實了這一點。

　　Investors seem to have noticed.

　　投資者似乎也注意到了。

　　2.hedge with 對沖

　　We came to a hedge with a gate in it.

　　我們來到一個有門的圍籬那兒。

　　She thwacked the hedge with her stick in a bad-tem-pered way.

　　她生氣地用手杖敲打籬笆。

　　3.infect with 把傳染給使充滿

　　To attack or infect with canker.

　　使患潰瘍以潰瘍攻擊或感染。

　　In 1997 there were lofty hopes hong kong would somehow infect the mainland with itsrelative freedoms.

　　1997年，有些人懷有遠大的愿望，即香港的相對自由將對內地產生一些感染。

　　4.return to 返回;重新恢復

　　But we return to this theme shortly.

　　我們將很快回到這個主題。

　　Demanding a return to growth won t cut it.

　　對恢復發展的要求不會對此有所削減。