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？

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。

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。

Social isolation is a "growing epidemic," he says, and since the '80s, the number of Americans who say they are lonely has increased from 20 percent to 40 percent.

他表示，社会孤立是一种“日益流行的疾病”，自80年代以来，认为自己孤独的美国人的人数已从20%增加到40%。

Social isolation is a growing epidemic - one that's increasingly recognized as having dire physical, mental and emotional consequences.

社交孤立是一种不断升级的流行病——人们日益认为它会对身体、精神和情感造成可怕的影响。

Background: the worldwide epidemic of AIDS has become the serious public health problem and the prominent social problem to threaten the people health and safety in the recent 30 years.

研究背景艾滋病的世界范围流行已成为近30年来严重困扰和威胁人类健康与生命安全的重大公共卫生问题和突出社会问题。

Historically, outbreaks of infectious diseases, all too often, in the short term to prevailing social enormous impact, AIDS epidemic is no exception.

历史上，大规模爆发的传染病往往会在短期内给当时的社会带来巨大的影响，艾滋病的流行也不例外。

Conclusions: the series service management not only was an effective management method, but also embodied the social and economic effect of the epidemic prevention and MCH work.

结论：系列服务管理不仅是一种行之有效的管理方法，而且充分体现了防疫和妇幼保健工作的社会和经济效益。

But because the epidemic is so widespread and affects all socioeconomic groups, there are likely several social and environmental explanations for the phenomenon, experts said.

但由于肥胖症的流行是如此普遍并影响到各个社会经济团体，可能有很多社会和环境问题来解释这一现象，专家说。

For the effective prevention and control the spread of the AIDS epidemic, AIDS prevention and control to enhance the awareness of all people, to create a good social atmosphere.

为有效预防控制艾滋病的流行蔓延，增强全民艾滋病防治意识，营造良好的社会氛围。

There is a lot of talk these days about tackling this epidemic of violence in our society-increasing the number of policemen, examining the underlying social causes and trying to put them right.

最近有不少遏制这类暴力犯罪的议论，比如增加警力，考察社会犯罪原因并加以纠正等等。