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A note said the anonymous package contained deadly bacterial anthrax.
一个便条上写着，匿名包裹中含有致命的细菌炭疽。
Toxic material teams were called out.
毒性物质小组出动了。
People who'd handled the package were decontaminated and rushed to hospitals.
拿过包裹的人接受消毒后被送往医院。
Authorities took no chances.
当局不会冒任何风险。
A couple hundred pounds of anthrax could kill up to three million people.
数百磅的炭疽可以杀死300万人。
This time in this day it was a false alarm.
今天这一次是虚惊一场。
This is what they were worried about.
这是他们所担心的事情。
Saddam Hussein spent as much as 100 million dollars developing Iraq's biological weapons.
萨达姆·侯赛因花费高达1亿美元开发伊拉克的生物武器。
By the time Iraq invaded Kuwait Hussein had cultures of anthrax and enough poison from the bacterium
伊拉克入侵科威特时，侯赛因已经培养出炭疽菌和足够的毒素，
that causes botulism to kill every person on the planet.
这种细菌能导致肉毒杆菌中毒，从而杀死地球上的所有人。
During the Persian Gulf War, part of the supply had been deployed in missiles and Iraqi commanders had authorization to fire.
波斯湾战争期间，部分补给已部署在导弹上，伊拉克指挥官获准开火。
Then the war was over.
后来战争结束了。
The United Nations destroyed the facilities where the toxin was made.
联合国摧毁了制造毒素的设施。
Even without the germs of war, people are frightened by the diseases caused by bacterial.
即使没有细菌战，人们也被细菌引起的疾病吓坏了。
Pneumonia, Salmonella, meningitis all caused by bacteria and passed among us every day.
肺炎、沙门氏菌、脑膜炎都是由细菌所致，它们每天都在我们中间传播。
Infectious disease is the greatest cause of illness and death in human history.
传染病是人类历史上导致疾病和死亡的最大原因。
It is now the third highest cause of death in the United States.
现在，它是美国第三大死亡原因。
Bacteria can make us deathly sick and often kill us.
细菌能使我们病入膏肓，还经常让我们致命。
And just when we develop medicines to kill the germs, they do what they do best mutate to resist our medicines.
就在我们研发出杀菌药物时，细菌却尽最大努力进行变异以抵抗我们的药物。
We are destined to always live with microorganisms.
我们注定永远会和微生物生活在一起。
And the concept that we will eradicate microorganisms,
关于我们将根除微生物的概念，
you can wash to your heart's content, but you won't rid your skin of microorganisms.
你可以净化内心，但却无法去除皮肤上的微生物。
And you can scrub to your cards content, you won't rid your mouth of bacteria.
你可以擦掉卡片上的内容，却无法去除口腔中的细菌。
And there are other things that we know about that bacteria are constantly present.
我们还知道，细菌持续存在。
Our intestinal tract is one great fermentation tube and it's constantly gurgling and grinding and converting things.
我们的肠道是一根很棒的发酵管道，它不断地咕嘟，把食物磨碎并将其转化。
We absolutely depend on these things and there's no way out of it.
我们完全依赖这些东西，没办法摆脱它。
