He survived, but, more alarmingly, a technician in a nearby lab, with no direct exposure, also contracted the disease and died.

但更加令人吃惊的是，附近有个实验室的一名技术人员虽然没有直接接触病毒，但也感染上了那种疾病，他死了。

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He found that they'd all contracted a similar but milder disease, cow pox, which vaccinated them against the deadly smallpox.

他发现他们都得过一种相似的但是温和的小病，牛痘，正是由于牛痘使得他们逃过了致死的天花。

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Scores of workers at that hospital contracted the disease, he recalled, though none succumbed to it.

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Personal touchscreen devices aren't as bad as the self-checkout screens in grocery stores, but he knows of rare cases where people contracted a serious skin disease called Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, from sharing a cell phone with bacteria on it.

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