《那些古怪又讓人憂心的問題》第41期:普通感冒(4)
1 “Virii” is used occasionally but discouraged. “Viræ” is definitely wrong.
2 Any upper respiratory infection can actually be the cause of the “common cold.”
2． 任何上呼吸道感染都可能是“感冒”的起因。3 The immune response is actually the cause of your symptoms, not the virus itself.
3． 造成感冒症狀的是自身免疫系統的免疫應答，而不是病毒本身。
4 Mathematically, this must be true. If the average were less than one, the virus would die out. If it were more than one, eventually everyone would have a cold all the time.
4． 數學上來說一定是這樣的，因爲如果平均感染數小於1，那麼病毒最終就會滅絕；如果平均感染數大於1，那麼總有一天所有人都會被感染。5 (450 million people).
5． 4.5億人。6 (650 million people).
6． 6.5億人。7 I first tried to take the question to Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow, but he patiently explained to me that he's not actually a doctor.
7． 我起先找的是Boing Boing博客的科裏•多克託羅（Cory Doctorow），但他很耐心地向我解釋說他實際上並不是真的“多克託”（doctor）。8 The residents of St. Kilda correctly identified the boats as the trigger for the outbreaks. The medical experts of the time, however, dismissed these claims, instead blaming the outbreaks on the way the islanders stood around outdoors in the cold when a boat arrived, and on their celebrating the new arrivals by drinking too much.
8． 聖基爾達島上的居民們堅持把外來的船隻認定爲疾病爆發的誘因。然而那時的醫學專家卻不贊同這一觀點，他們認爲島民在船隻到來時在寒風中站在屋外迎接來賓，並在慶典上喝得酩酊大醉纔是疾病爆發的原因。9 Unless we ran out of food during the quarantine and all starved to death; in that case, human rhinoviruses would die with us.
9． 除非我們在隔離期間吃光了所有糧食並被餓死。在這種情況下，人類鼻病毒也會消亡。
