法国巴黎一家医院为了研究肠道疾病，对外征集粪便样本，并对采用的样本提供50欧元报酬。结果，捐献者纷至沓来，挡不住民众热情的医院周五决定暂停这项计划。
A Paris hospital which made a public appeal for stool samples for a study on intestinal diseases said Friday it had suspended the project after being inundated by donors hoping for an easy 50 euros.
法国巴黎一家医院为了研究肠道疾病，对外征集粪便样本，并对采用的样本提供50欧元报酬。结果，捐献者纷至沓来，挡不住民众热情的医院周五决定暂停这项计划。
“We had to cancel the call for donors and halt the study because it had gotten out of control,” professor Harry Sokol, the gastroenterologist leading the study at the Saint-Antoine hospital, told AFP.
巴黎Saint Antoine医院肠胃病学家哈里.索科尔（Harry Sokol）教授表示：“我们不得不停止号召民众的捐赠，并停止这项研究，因为这件事已经失去了控制。”
Originally donors were sought via posters at the hospital and at medical schools, offering compensation of 50 euros ($57) if accepted.
民众最初是看到医院和医学院张贴的海报：如果捐献者的粪便样本获得采纳，就可获得50欧元报酬。
“Someone took a picture and it spread rapidly on the internet and social media, because the message had been altered: People thought it meant: Give us your stools, we’ll give you 50 euros,” Sokol said.
索科尔说：“有人拍了张照片，很快在网络上传开了，然而信息被更改了，人们以为把粪便给我们，就会得到50欧元。”
The telephone hotline and email for potential donors was quickly overwhelmed, “and even after we cut off the number people were calling the hospital switchboard, some even showed up in person, and it’s still going on,” he said.
结果，医院的电话热线和电子邮件很快被挤爆，“即使我们切断了热线电话，人们也会打到医院总机，甚至亲自来到医院，这还在持续，”索科尔说。
In fact the rigorous selection progress for the study, on a potential treatment for intestinal inflammation, involved a series of blood and stool tests as well as an extensive interview on a donor’s medical history.
报道称，事实上，这项针对肠道发炎潜在治疗方法的研究，在筛选粪便样本上有着严格程序，包括一连串血液和粪便化验，还有深入访谈以了解捐粪者的病史。
Doctors worldwide are studying fecal transplants, which aim to treat a range of chronic gut diseases by introducing stool bacteria from a healthy person into affected patients to help replenish a normal bacterial balance.
全球医学界目前都在研究“粪便移植”，目的是把健康人士粪便中的细菌，移植至病人肠道中，来协助恢复肠道内的细菌平衡，治疗一系列慢性肠道疾病。
