"I'm not really seeing the value in this," says Kim Bertrand, an epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health.

哈佛大学公共卫生医学院的流行病学专家金·伯特兰就表示，她真的没看出这有什么价值。

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"Talcum powder is an interesting case, because it's not something that's necessary," said Dr. Anne McTiernan, an epidemiologist with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

“滑石粉是个有趣的案例，因为它并不是必需品，”西雅图弗莱德·哈钦森癌症研究中心的流行病学家安妮·麦克蒂尔南医生Dr。

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"Although any risk to humans from a bat bite or scratch would be low, we would strongly advise members of the public not to handle a sick or injured bat, " said Professor Martyn Regan, an epidemiologist with the North West Health Protection Agency.

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Chris Beyrer, an epidemiologist with the Johns Hopkins University in the U.S., is not one of them.

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However, Simon Cousens, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, points out that such a pattern does not necessarily mean a disease outbreak is levelling off.

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