as he put it, "We've turned the page on infectious disease."

"我们对传染病已经翻开了里程碑式的一页"
And medical schools and the public health community

当时的医学院和公共卫生团体都教导大众
taught that it would be possible to eradicate

说所有的流行病都可以
one epidemic disease after another,

陆陆续续被彻底清除
like smallpox or polio as models.

例如天花和小儿麻痹症
But our Surgeon General turned out to be spectacularly wrong.

可结果证明我们的局长错得一塌糊涂
Today, in 2010, infectious diseases

在2010年的今天
are the number one cause of death worldwide.

传染病是全球范围内至死率最高的一种病
It's also clear that it will be impossible

事实证明要写完二十世纪和二十一世纪的病理史
to write the history of the twentieth

而不提供一个中心地带
and twenty-first century without giving a central place,

是不可能完成的
at the very least, to HIV/AIDS,

最起码对艾滋病来说不可能