In probing this strange viral process, we wondered, was there something to be learned from studying the history of a social epidemic?

在探究“传染”这个奇妙的过程中，我们非常想知道，我们能否从一种社会流行现象的历史中学到什么？

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This is a social disease that threatens to turn into an epidemic.

这是种社会疾病，并有可能转变为一种流行病。

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The story of the diabetes epidemic and our social response to it is one of how technologies have pushed people into a diabetic state: technology has wrought more technology.

糖尿病流行病和我们的社会对策的历史就是一段技术如何促使人们患上糖尿病的历史；技术引发更多技术。

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Like its sibling, stress is an economic, medical and social problem of epidemic proportion and is making us emotionally depleted, physically sick, and, incidentally, fatter.

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Is it a social network suicide epidemic?

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Now to turn the tide on this epidemic, we must confront the complex social and environmental conditions that help fuel the HIV epidemic in African-American communities.

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