《那些古怪又讓人憂心的問題》第51期:消失的DNA(4)
Radiation
Large doses of gamma radiation also harm you by damaging your DNA; radiation poisoning is probably the kind of real-life injury that most resembles Nina's scenario. The cells most sensitive to radiation are, as with chemotherapy, those in your bone marrow, followed by those in your digestive tract.
大劑量的伽馬輻射也會對你的DNA造成損害。輻射中毒可能是最接近尼娜設想的情形的現實損害了。和化療一樣，對輻射最爲敏感的細胞是你的骨髓，緊隨其後的是你消化道中的細胞。Radiation poisoning, like destroying angel mushroom toxicity, has a latent period-a “walking ghost” phase. This is the period where the body is still working, but no new proteins can be synthesized and the immune system is collapsing.
輻射中毒和“毀滅天使”中毒一樣有一段行屍走肉般的潛伏期，在這段時間裏你的身體仍然在運作，但無法生產新的蛋白質，免疫系統也在崩塌。
In cases of severe radiation poisoning, the immune system collapse is the primary cause of death. Without a supply of white blood cells, the body can't fight off infections, and ordinary bacteria can get into the body and run wild.
在嚴重的輻射中毒病例中，免疫系統崩潰是首要致死原因。失去了白細胞供應，身體無力抵禦感染，即使是最普通的細菌也能進入體內胡作非爲。The end result
最終結果Losing your DNA would most likely result in abdominal pain, nausea, dizziness, rapid immune system collapse, and death within days or hours from either rapid systemic infection or systemwide organ failure.
丟失體內全部DNA最有可能造成腹痛、噁心、眩暈、免疫系統迅速崩潰，幾天甚至幾個小時之內就會因爲急性全身感染或全身器官衰竭而死亡。On the other hand, there would be at least one silver lining. If we ever end up in a dystopian future where Orwellian governments collect our genetic information and use it to track and control us . . .
不過，至少我們還有一線希望。如果我們未來會遭遇反烏托邦的奧威爾式政府，要通過收集人類基因信息來跟蹤並控制所有人時：. . . you'd be invisible.
……你對於他們而言就是隱形的。1 Yes, “centrifugal.” I will fight you.
1．是的，是“離心”，我要和你鬥爭到底。2 I don't have a citation for this, but I feel like we would have heard about it.
2．對此我沒有引用信息，但我覺得如果真有人失去了全部DNA，我們肯定都聽說了。3 There are several members of the Amanita genus called “destroying angel,” and - along with another Amanita called “death cap” - they are responsible for the vast majority of fatal mushroom poisonings.
3．鵝膏屬裏有好幾種蘑菇都叫“毀滅天使”，還有一些叫“白毒傘”，全世界絕大多數致命蘑菇中毒事件都由這種蘑菇引起。4 Citation: I got one of your friends to sneak into your room with a microscope while you were sleeping and check.
4．引用：我讓你的一個朋友趁你睡覺的時候溜進你的屋子，拿着顯微鏡檢查了一下。5 Immune boosters like pegfilgrastim (Neulasta) make frequent doses of chemotherapy safer. They stimulate white blood cell production by, in effect, tricking the body into thinking that it has a massive E. coli infection that it needs to fight off.
5．免疫增強劑培非格司亭（藥名Neulasta）可以使頻繁的化療更加安全。這種藥物通過誘騙身體相信有大量大腸桿菌感染需要對抗，從而刺激身體生產大量白細胞。6 Although it's a little different; if you drip superglue on cotton thread, it will catch fire.
6．其實還是有些區別的，如果你在棉線團上滴超級膠水，棉線團會着火。7 Extremely high radiation doses kill people quickly, but not because of DNA damage. Instead, they physically dissolve the blood-brain barrier, resulting in rapid death from cerebral hemorrhage (brain bleeding).
7．極大劑量的輻射確實能使人快速死亡，但死因不是DNA損傷，而是由於血腦屏障被大量輻射物理解體，最終死於大腦出血。
