Doctors cannot effect a cure if the disease has spread too far.

假如这种疾病已扩散得厉害，医生也无法妙手回春。

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Cheating can spread like a disease.

欺骗可以像疾病一样传播。

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Tracking the spread of a disease is an important step in stopping its outbreak.

追踪疾病的传播是阻止其爆发的重要一步。

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The genome could also help farmers avoid Asian soybean rust disease, a highly destructive fungus spread by the wind.

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One can stop spread of disease through a community without being 100% effective in each person who gets the vaccine.

疫苗能够遏制疾病在整个社区中传播,虽然对于每个人来说它并非百分之百有效

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As we'll see in section today, a vaccine does not have to be totally perfect in order to prevent transmission of a disease, because when a disease enters a community its spread from one person to another.

有如我们今天看到的,疫苗不一定非要,绝对完美地阻止疾病的传播,因为当疾病侵入一个社区后,会在人群间传播

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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Civil and Environmental Engineering department looked at the 40 largest U.S. airports and figured out which ones would be the most likely to spread a disease in the event of an outbreak in the cities they serve.

CNN: Researchers list top 10 airports for spreading disease

Walkers in the Yorkshire Dales are being asked to take precautions to prevent the spread of a disease that is threatening millions of ash trees.

BBC: Ash dieback disease: Walkers urged to help prevent spread

In court, Rogers' barrister Giles Nelson said his client accepted there was no excuse for his conduct and that an "atmosphere of conflict had spread like a disease".

BBC: Winterbourne View: Sentencing of care workers begins