Contract a disease.

染上疾病。

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Most have paid a few hundred dollars for tests on only a few genes, to see if they are likely to contract a specific disease.

这之中大部分人只是花几百美元给自己的部分基因组测序，看看自己是否容易患上某种特殊的疾病。

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It is theoretically possible for humans to contract a version of the disease by eating tainted meat.

从理论上讲，人类食用感染上疯牛病的牛肉有可能感染类似的脑部致命疾病。

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An average of 65 people per year in all of New York City contract the disease, according to the NYCHD.

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Yet of the 470, 000 women who contract the disease worldwide each year (15, 000 in the U.S.), half die within five years.

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Most truck-drivers and perhaps 40% of migrant miners contract the disease.

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