In 1912, he began to study a skin disease that was killing thousands of people in the South.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

But it's some sort of skin disease, flaking skin disease or other sorts of boils and skin states that seem to be associated, at least in the Israelite mind, with decomposition and death.

但它是一种皮肤病，皮肤会一片片地剥落,或者是生疖和出现一些与皮肤有关的症状，至少在以色列人心目中，这种症状和腐烂、死亡联系在一起。

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And so you can imagine that even in its— with all of this activity on your skin, even at its most--least serious level, it's a terrible disease.

你可以想象这些,即使在,伴随着皮肤上的任何运动,即使是最轻微的活动,也会带来严重的问题

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He was forty-nine years old. Leprosy -- also called Hansen's disease is a bacterial disease that causes skin wounds and nerve damage.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

But in some cases, that progressions of the disease would start to affect other organs, in addition to your skin, and your body would become overwhelmed with the infection and eventually die.

但在某些情况下,疾病的蔓延,会开始影响其它器官,不仅是皮肤,你的身体在受到感染后全线崩溃,直至死亡

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And they did that by intentionally infecting calves, by harvesting their skin when they were at a certain point of the disease, and by isolating the virus from the skin of the calves.

他们有意感染很多小牛,当小牛疾病发展到一定程度,就收割牛皮,然后把病毒从牛皮里分离出来

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