盤點那些從死神手中逃出幸存的人(下)

　　10月15日口譯文章：清點那些從死神手中逃出幸存的人(下)

　　5.菲利克斯--幸存於：墨西哥販毒團體綁架與荼毒

　　墨西哥販毒團夥運動向來以疏忽性命而著名。很多人在Zeta和Gulf的戰役中喪命，而更多無辜的人--如記者，博主，警員，移民等--在交火中被抓走。很多警員幫忙販毒團夥而非抓捕他們，墨西哥很多地域沒有國法，犯法團夥橫行，沒有任何平安保障。在個中一個地域，一位自稱菲利克斯的20歲男性告知媒體，他一天晚上獨自走在表面時，被警員帶走，開端了一場漫長且殘暴的惡夢。

　　這位警官將菲利克斯丟在了Zeta團體的一個立足處。接下來的一周裏他被毒打、被用槍把毆打，並在他們向他家裏打手機索要贖金時被重復電擊。綁匪在他眼前將Gulf 團體的成員熬煎致死，並告知他假如他的家人不克不及湊夠錢，他的運氣將會和那人同樣。家人們終極匯了5000美元曩昔，而這還不敷--綁匪們請求再匯一次一樣多的錢。在幾個月裏菲利克斯被周轉於數個立足之地，偶然和許多犯人配合關在狹窄而悶熱的房間裏。毆打按期產生，滅亡隨時大概產生;末了，他們認為從他身上榨不出錢了，就把他打得半死扔在了街上。他花了數月才病愈，但最少能在世報告這些悲涼遭受--不像其他許多人，從墨西哥陌頭消逝後再也沒返來。

　　4.巴伊亞·巴卡裏--幸存於：印度洋墜機變亂(獨一幸存者)

　　假如你最恐怖的惡夢之一不是登上了子夜墜入大洋的飛機，你就去看看片子《荒島余生》的前半個小時後再返來跟我評論辯論。很難再想象比這更糟的閱歷，很少有人能在世報告這統統--但一個14歲的法國女孩做到了，而機上別的152人就沒這麽榮幸了。

　　2009年6月30日清晨2點上下，也門航空626號空客A310墜入印度洋，年青的巴伊亞·巴卡裏被飛機拋出，而且--在沒有浮水衣也不太善於泅水的情形下--想法抱著一塊飛機殘骸浮在海面上。她厥後說，最開端必定也有其他幸存者，由於在墜機後的一片淩亂中她能聽見他們的聲音，但這些聲音末了都漸漸消逝了。當太陽升起時，她意想到本身已經是獨自一人，直到淩晨11點上下--即距墜機9個小時後--她才被一艘招募來搜救幸存者的民用船只發明。Bahia是搜救事情的獨一收成;她的母親已罹難，但她的父親不在飛機上。她骨盆骨折、鎖骨破裂，但除此之外，三周後她就出院了。

　　3.保羅·萊薩德--幸存於：困在冰涼溪流中20小時

　　在64歲的保羅·萊薩德看來，似乎全部情形都通同好了似的，來確保他不克不及在世走出逆境。他在緬因州的荒原裏駕駛的雪上摩托車翻倒了;他的頭被車上繁重的貨架壓在底下不克不及動，除非他想扭斷本身的脖子;縱然恰是晌中午分，氣象也異常冷，更糟的是，他泰半個身子都浸在冰涼的溪水中。接著太陽開端下山，低溫成為他持續存活的絕對威逼。

　　他於當天晚上8:30被申報失落，但搜救事情因暴風大雪的氣象緣故原由只能連續到越日清晨2：30， 保羅固然也只能煎熬下去。暴風咆哮，溫度驟降至零度，搜救事情在拂曉時分從新開端，此次調集了更多人力，另有一架飛機。一個地域北極貓(摩托車品牌)經銷商老板和他的兒子--他們介入了大型搜刮部隊--在那天淩晨快8點時認出了翻倒的雪上摩托車。直到保羅被救起時，他已在如許致命的情況中被困跨越20小時--咱們得重申，他是頭被壓住--而且明顯飽受低體溫與凍傷的苦楚，但終極他照樣完整病愈。

　　2.傑克·芬克邦納--幸存於：食肉細菌沾染

　　2006年2月，5歲的男孩傑克·芬克邦納加入了一場比維籃球聯賽--這是這個賽季的末了一場競賽。在競賽的末了一分鐘，他從暗地裏被推了一把，嘴唇被籃球框座割破了。這原來只象征著他第一次嘴唇發腫，但使人受驚的是，傷口外面卻包括有致命的細菌--甲類鏈球菌,在接下來的幾天內，傑克的怙恃就極其震動的聽到大夫告知他們，他們的兒子大概快死了。

　　甲類鏈球菌是一種食肉菌，它從傑克嘴上破開的傷口進入人體，而且真的開端腐蝕他的臉。他的大夫形容這就像"點燃了羊皮紙的一端，你眼看著火苗從一個小角敏捷躥上來，你正在這一邊踩滅它，它又舒展到了另外一邊去…就像你能看著它在你面前挪動同樣。"作為上帝教徒，傑克的家人在臨終禱告中要求家人和同夥們向卡蒂麗·戴卡奎沙禱告，她是一名皈依上帝教的莫霍克印第安人(傑克有一半倫米印第安血統)。難以置信的是，沾染速率慢了下來--接著停滯了。大夫們沒用若幹皮膚構造和別的手術醫治法式就重塑了傑克的面部皮膚，而一樣平常來講食肉菌沾染是不會就這麽減退的--除非病人已死。許多人在診斷出來後的24小時內就死了;傑克的病愈大概是拜卡蒂麗所賜，她於1980年受宣福禮，現被以為是上帝教會的聖徒--聽說治愈力是她潛伏的聖跡。。

　　1.蒂莫西·布朗--幸存於：90年月初期患艾滋病(第一個已知治愈病人)

　　在80年月末及90年月初，被診斷出艾滋病即是被宣判極刑。一些初期藥物能緩解疾發病展速率，但沒有藥能阻攔它，而一旦艾滋病在一名病人身上表示出癥狀，他就離性命盡頭不遠了--而且這個進程不會很長。

　　如今再也不是這個情形了，特殊是能初期診斷並合營當代藥物的話。但當蒂莫西·布朗在1995年被診斷出艾滋病時，逆轉錄藥物還處在用來延伸性命的階段，而且刻日不定。布朗對醫治反響優越，但在2005年抱病並被診斷出白血病。化學療法使他已被損壞的免疫體系對沾染加倍敏感，他在第二輪醫治中患了肺炎;在第三輪醫治中，他敗血癥發生發火，他的大夫意想到化學療法大概會殺死他。便是當時吉羅·胡特大夫決議試下應用他人都沒用過的辦法來醫治。他給布朗舉行了骨髓移植來醫治他的白血病，但不僅僅選取了一個立室的募捐，還選取了它具有的特別且使人渴求的特質，其上有CCR5的一種基因突變，上面稀疏的遺傳缺點使得細胞可以或許抵禦艾滋病毒。移植不但勝利了，它還展示了全部預期後果--它治愈了白血病，並且使人難以置信的是，也治愈了艾滋病。也便是說，蒂莫西·布朗曾同時沾染上艾滋病和白血病，這兩種病在絕大多半情形下都邑致死，而他如今卻兩樣都被治愈了。自從手術後他就沒再吃過逆轉錄藥物，而且因為他閱歷的醫治履行起來危害太大且用度昂貴，直到如今他仍被稱為"柏林患者"--第一個已知被治愈艾滋病的人。

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　　5.Felix--Survived: Kidnapping, torture by Mexican drug cartel

　　The activities of the Mexican drug cartels are marked by a profound lack of value placed on human life. Scores of people have died in fighting between the Zeta and Gulf cartels, and scores more innocents—journalists, bloggers, police, migrants—have been caught in the crossfire. Many police assist the cartels rather than be executed, and in many parts of Mexico there is no law BUT the cartels, and there is no safety. It was in one of these regions that a 20 year-old man who identified himself as "Felix" to the press was picked up by a police officer while walking alone one night, the beginning of a long and brutal nightmare.

　　The officer left Felix at a Zeta cartel safe house, and for the next week he was beaten, pistol whipped and shocked while repeated calls were made to his family for ransom. His captors tortured Gulf cartel members to death in front of him, and told him he would share their fate if his family couldn't scrape together any money; they eventually wired $5000, which wasn't enough—they demanded the same amount again.For a couple of months Felix was shuttled around to a half dozen safe houses, sometimes sharing small, sweltering rooms with dozens of other prisoners. Beatings were regular, deaths were common; eventually, figuring no more money was forthcoming, Felix was beaten within an inch of his life and dumped on the street. His recovery took months, but he lived to tell the tale—unlike so many others who disappear from the Mexican streets and never return.

　　4.Bahia Bakari--Survived: Plane crash into Indian Ocean (sole survivor)

　　If one of your worst nightmares is not being aboard a plane crashing in the dead of night in the middle of the ocean, come back when you've seen the first half hour of the film "Cast Away" and we'll discuss it again. It's hard to imagine a more terrifying experience, and very few live to tell about it—but one 14 year-old French girl did, when 152 others were not so lucky.

　　Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310, plunged into the Indian Ocean around two in the morning of June 30, 2009. Young Bahia Bakari was ejected from the plane, and—despite having no life jacket and not being a very good swimmer—was able to stay afloat by clinging to a piece of debris from the plane's fuselage. She would later say that there must have initially been other survivors, as she could hear their voices in the chaos after the crash, but that all the voices had eventually faded away.She realized she was alone as the sun rose, and it wasn't until around 11 in the morning—nine hours after the crash—that she was discovered by a civilian vessel that had been enlisted to help search for survivors. Bahia was the only one that the search effort would yield; her mother was among the dead, but her father had not been aboard the plane. She was suffering from a fractured pelvis and broken collarbone, among other things, and was released from the hospital three weeks later.

　　3.Paul Lessard--Survived: Being trapped for 20 hours in freezing creek

　　It must have seemed to 64 year-old Paul Lessard that circumstances had conspired to make sure he wasn't getting out of his predicament alive. He had been out snowmobiling in the Maine wilderness alone and had turned the machine over; his head was pinned underneath its heavy storage rack, making it difficult to move unless he wanted to break his neck. It was very cold even though it was the middle of the afternoon, and to make matters worse, the majority of his body was lying in a freezing creek. Then the sun began to go down, and the temperature REALLY began to be a factor in Paul's continued survival.

　　He was reported missing around 8:30 that night, but the search could only continue until about 2:30 in the morning due to heavy snow and wind, which of course Paul was having to endure. Temperatures plummeted to right around zero degrees with the wind chill, and the search effort resumed at dawn with additional manpower and a plane.The owner of a local Arctic Cat dealership and his son—part of the extensive search party—spotted the overturned snowmobile shortly before eight that morning. By the time Paul was freed he'd spent over 20 hours trapped in these deadly conditions—we reiterate, trapped by his head—and was obviously suffering from hypothermia and frostbite, but eventually made a full recovery.

　　2.Jake Finkbonner--Survived: Flesh-eating bacterial infection

　　In February 2006, five year-old Jake Finkbonner was playing in a Pee-Wee League basketball game—the last game of the season. In the final minute of that game, he was pushed from behind and split his lip on the base of the basketball hoop. It would have just been his first fat lip, but the surface of this base contained a deadly surprise—the bacteria Strep A, and within the next couple of days, Jake's stunned parents were listening to doctors telling them that their son was probably going to die.

　　Strep A is a flesh-eating bacteria, and it entered through the open wound on Jake's mouth and literally began to consume his face. His doctors described it as being "like lighting one end of a parchment paper, and you just watch it spread from that corner very fast, and you're stamping it on one side, and it's flaming up on another… it's almost as if you could watch it moving in front of your eyes". Jake's family, being Catholic, had last rites administered and asked for friends and family to pray to Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, a Mohawk Indian who converted to Catholicism (Jake is half Lummi Indian).Unbelievably, the infection slowed—and then stopped. It has taken countless skin grafts and other surgical procedures to restore Jake's face, but flesh-eating bacterial infection is not something that ordinarily just subsides—unless the patient is dead. Many patients die within 24 hours of a diagnosis; Jakes's recovery was unlikely enough that Kateri, who was beatified in 1980, is now being considered by the Catholic Church for sainthood—said recovery potentially being the miracle that qualifies her.

　　1.Timothy Brown--Survived: AIDS, after being infected in early '90s (First known cured patient)

　　In the late 1980s and early '90s, an HIV diagnosis was a death sentence. Some early drugs could slow its progression to AIDS, but none could stop it, and once AIDS manifested in a patient, the end was nigh—and it wouldn't be very long.

　　That is no longer so, especially with early diagnosis, with modern drugs. But when Timothy Brown was diagnosed with HIV in 1995, retroviral medications were still at a point where they could usually extend life, but not indefinitely. Brown responded well to treatment, but became ill in 2005 and was diagnosed with leukemia.Chemotherapy made his already-compromised immune system more susceptible to infection, and he developed pneumonia during the second round; during the third, there was a bout with sepsis, and his doctors realized that chemotherapy was likely to kill him. That's when Dr. Gero Hutter simply decided to take a shot at a procedure nobody had ever tried before.He gave Brown a stem cell transplant to treat his leukemia, but instead of choosing a matching donor, he chose one with a special and desired quality—what's known as a CCR5 mutation, a rare genetic disorder that makes one's cells resistant to HIV. Not only did the transplant take, it had ALL of the desired effects—it cured the leukemia, and unbelievably, the HIV as well.That is to say, Timothy Brown was once infected with HIV AND leukemia, two diseases that are lethal the vast majority of the time, and he is now infected with neither. He hasn't taken retroviral drugs since the day of the procedure, and while the treatment he underwent is too risky and expensive to be standard, he is nevertheless now referred to as "The Berlin Patient"—the first known person to be cured of HIV.