“THERE SEEMS to be something in the air that can harm developing fetuses,” Beate Ritz, an epidemiologist who headed the study, said in a statement

领导这项研究的流行病学家Beate Ritz在一次声明中说:“空气中似乎有某种东西会伤害正在发育的胎儿。”

Another possible explanation is that Japan is testing fewer people than other countries, said Kenji Shibuya. He is an epidemiologist and researcher at the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research.

涉谷健二表示，另一种可能的解释是，日本检测人数要比其它国家少。他是东京政策研究基金会的流行病学家和研究员。

||1:Part of the reason for that lack of clarity is inadequate data on where and when attacks happen.||2:But David Van Sickle, an epidemiologist and medical anthropologist who once worked for America’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has come up with a solution.||3:This is to use the asthma inhalers carried around routinely by patients to record the time and location of symptoms as they happen.

||1:缺乏确切了解的部分原因在于对哮喘在何时何地发作没有足够的数据。||2:但是曾在美国疾病控制和预防中心（CDC）工作过的流行病学家和医学人类学家大卫?凡?西科勒想出了一个解决方案。||3:这个解决方案就是利用患者例行性随身携带的哮喘吸入器来记录他们的哮喘症状出现时的时间和位置。

But David Van Sickle, an epidemiologist and medical anthropologist who once worked for America’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, has come up with a solution.

但是曾在美国疾病控制和预防中工作过的流行病学家和医学人类学家大卫·凡·西科勒想出了一个解决方案。

A study from US epidemiologist Katherine Flegal finds being overweight might actually protect your body against death.

美国流行病专家凯瑟琳发现，过度肥胖可能会降低人们死亡的概率。

“Every inbound case is a potential seed that can grow into an outbreak,” says Ben Cowling, an epidemiologist at Hong Kong University.

香港大学流行病学家本·考林表示:“每一个传入的病例都是一粒可能导致疫情爆发的潜在种子。”

“It really began in a big way in the Framingham study in the 1950s, ” says Michael Thun, an epidemiologist with the American Cancer Society.

“上世纪50年代在弗雷明汉才真正广泛开始研究起来，”美国癌症协会的流行病学家麦克·图恩说。

“This gets us a big step closer to one type of mechanism” for how the flu spreads, said epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch of Harvard University.

“这项研究结果使我们向流感如何传播的机理方面迈进了一大步，”哈佛大学的流行病学家MarcLipsitch说道。

Attitudes about weight also are believed to be a factor, said Dr. Liping Pan, a CDC epidemiologist .

对体重的态度也被认为是其中的一个因素，DC的流行病学家潘力平博士表示。

A study by Professor Melzer, an epidemiologist , found changes in sex hormones associated with exposure to BPA in men.

流行病学家梅尔泽教授做的一项研究发现，男性性激素的改变与接触双酚A有关。

Alpa Patel, an American Cancer Society epidemiologist who looked at the data, says the numbers “seem like very reasonable estimates. ”

美国癌症流行病学专家阿尔芭.帕特看了这项调查数据后认为，“该数据看起来是非常合理的估计”。

Ernest Drucker, an epidemiologist , uses the tools of his trade to examine the laws and their consequences.

欧内斯特•德鲁克是一名流行病学家，利用本专业的工具考察了这些法律及其后果。

Pablo Kuri, a Mexican epidemiologist , said three of the dead were children: a 9-year-old girl, a 12-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy.

一位墨西哥流行病学专家巴勃罗库里说，死亡案例中有三名是儿童：一个9岁的女孩，一个12岁的女孩和一名13岁的男孩。