Romina Libster: The power of herd immunity
ロミーナ・リブスター: 集団免疫の力
Dr. Romina Libster investigates influenza and other respiratory viruses, searching for ways to most effectively keep viruses from spreading. Full bio
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I had to see as a pediatrician was Sol,
of a severe respiratory infection.
a patient worsen so fast.
見たことがありませんでした
she was connected to a respirator
and after a quite distressing catharsis,
沈痛な気持ちを切り替えた後
came to mind,
baby be so unfortunate?"
見舞われなけりゃいけないなんて?」や
something about it?"
killed millions of people per year.
人々の生命を奪いました
current population.
remember the polio epidemic
襲ったポリオ大流行を
いらっしゃるのではないでしょうか
available against polio.
They were going crazy.
我を忘れていました
with caustic lime.
as if that could do something.
子供の下着に入れたりしました
thousands of people died.
何千人もの人々が亡くなりました
with very significant neurological damage.
神経系の重篤な障害が残りました
my generation was lucky
as terrible as this.
of the 20th century's public health.
20世紀最大の成功の一つです
that have most reduced mortality,
such as smallpox from the planet
地上から駆逐し
reducing mortality
vaccine-preventable diseases.
防げる病気だと考えられています
予防できるはずなのですが
something must be done.
しなくてはならないことがあります
if not all of us here today,
at some point in our life.
青年期を過ぎてどのワクチンや
we should receive after adolescence.
知っているかとなると分かりません
who we are protecting
beyond protecting ourselves?
of a particular disease,
has ever had contact with the disease.
nor been vaccinated against measles.
ワクチンを打った事もありません
appears in this city
from person to person,
throughout the community.
of the population
the measles, which means
survived, and developed natural defenses;
immunized against measles.
どちらかです
appears in this city,
that much from person to person.
to pay attention to something.
of the disease
流行することを防ぐという点で
the people in this community
コミュニティの住人たちも
coming in contact with the disease,
within a community receive
ワクチンを受けていない人々が
by vaccinated people,
ことで生まれる間接的なシールドは
on this herd immunity
in infographics are not just hypothetical.
ワクチンを受けていない人々の割合は実際のものです
and nephews, our children,
to receive their first shots.
子どもたちです
that lowers their defenses.
未接種かも知れないのです
allergic to a particular vaccine.
ある人達もいます
the expected effect,
are always 100 percent effective.
常に効力がある訳では無いのです
almost exclusively on herd immunity
病気から守られています
of the population be vaccinated.
受ける必要があります
「閾値(いき値)」と呼ばれ
that the vaccine generates.
in a vaccinated community
to spread more freely
of this disease within the community.
発生する可能性があります
at some point controlled may reappear.
再流行するかも知れません
and is still happening.
今でも見られる現象です
published an article
medical journals,
mumps and rubella,
というものです
and stopped vaccinating their children.
子どもたちへの接種も止みました
fell below this threshold.
in many cities in the world --
within the medical community.
if this was actually true.
その真偽を確認するための研究を始めました
and autism at the population level,
因果関係を見いだせなかっただけでなく
had incorrect claims.
書かれていたことが分かりました
the article in 2010.
正式に撤回しています
for not getting vaccinated
can have potential adverse effects.
副作用を起こす可能性があります
than possible complications.
常に利点の方が大きいのです
we want to heal fast.
when we have an infection,
when we have high blood pressure,
and we want to heal fast.
to think of preventing diseases,
when we are healthy?
難しく感じるのでしょう?
when affected by an illness,
in Argentina and worldwide.
覚えているはずです
began to come to light,
were entering the winter season.
ran into pharmacies to buy alcohol gel.
アルコール除菌ジェルを買いに薬局へ走り
in pharmacies to get a vaccine,
if it was the right vaccine
against this new virus.
分かっていないというのに―
my fellowship at the Infant Foundation,
奨学生としての研究に加え
for a prepaid medicine company.
小児専門の家庭医として働いていました
my shift at 8 a.m.,
of 50 scheduled visits.
入っていました
people didn't know what to do.
誰もどうすればいいか分かっていませんでした
that I was examining.
what we were used to seeing in winter,
少し年齢が上で
to my fellowship mentor,
the same from a colleague,
of pregnant women
what was happening.
解明しようとしました
we took the car
in Buenos Aires Province,
for cases of the new influenza virus.
受け入れ病院へ行きました
it was crowded.
in NASA-like bio-safety suits.
防護服を着ていました
didn't breathe for two hours.
息を止めていました
reaching out to pediatricians
and in Buenos Aires Province.
小児科医たちに連絡をし始めました
in contact with our children,
どのような症状をもたらすか
this new H1N1 virus had
hospitalized by this virus.
確認することができました
got more seriously ill:
less than one year old;
with chronic pulmonary diseases.
ある子どもたちでした
was important
見分けることは重要でした
for getting the influenza vaccine,
which the pandemic not yet reached.
国々にも伝えられました
H1N1 virus became available,
of the at-risk groups vaccinated,
ワクチンの接種を受けた病院では
of individual responsibility,
責任に基づく行為ですが
not only am I protecting myself,
自分だけでなく
her first vaccine against whooping cough.
まだ受けていませんでした
had been vaccinated.
ワクチンを接種していたらどうだったかしらと
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Romina Libster - Medical researcherDr. Romina Libster investigates influenza and other respiratory viruses, searching for ways to most effectively keep viruses from spreading.
Why you should listen
Dr. Romina Libster is a staff scientist and assistant investigator at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She received her Doctor of Medicine, with High Honors from the University Of Buenos Aires School Of Medicine in 2004. She then completed her pediatric internship and residency at the “Pedro de Elizalde” Children’s Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 2004-2008. Upon completion of this training she began her Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the Fundación INFANT in Buenos Aires under the tutelage of a renowned investigator, Dr. Fernando P. Polack. Shortly after assuming her fellowship position, she began the Master in Clinical Effectiveness Program in Buenos Aires. She conducted a series of complex and innovative studies on respiratory viruses, with a special focus on influenza. Romina was invited by Dr. Kathryn M. Edwards to join the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program team at Vanderbilt University in 2009 where she is leading a large clinical trial to determine the safety and immunogenicity of sequential rotavirus vaccine schedules. In 2013, Dr. Libster returned to her home country through a repatriation program from Fundación INFANT where she joined the faculty at the institution.
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