In contrast today, because we have antibiotics and we have vaccines, people don't die of infectious diseases as often.
相反,在现在,因为我们有了抗生素和疫苗,死于感染性疾病的人就不像以前那么多
And there are many reasons for this, our success in eliminating infectious diseases as causes in the developed world.
还有很多原因,在发达国家我们成功地消灭了感染性疾病
And so you can see the pneumonia, tuberculosis, the communicable diseases, infectious diseases, for the most part, are taking the most lives at that point.
你可以看到肺炎,肺结核,传染病,感染性疾病,是夺走大多数人生命的主要原因
Separating our water supply from sewage and learning how to do wastewater treatment was a really important part of reducing infectious diseases.
把净水和污水分开,以及学会污水处理的方法,是减少感染性疾病传播方法中的重要部分
Usually it's done by taking all or part of the infectious agent, and showing them to your immune system in some way.
通常它会带着全部或部分抗原介质,并以某种方式呈递给你的免疫系统
Okay, so let's talk about the example of smallpox, which is one of the world's great successes in the battle against infectious diseases.
我们现在来谈一谈天花,它是人类与传染病的斗争中,获得的一项伟大胜利
That had a remarkable effect on reducing transmission of infectious diseases, in doctor's offices and hospitals.
这显著的减少了,在医生的办公室和医院内部,感染性疾病的传播
So the problem of infectious disease prevention and treatment isn't solved yet, you know this, right?
传染病预防和治疗的问题,现在仍然没有解决,你们应该了解,对吧
In 1665, 93% of the people that died in that year died of infectious diseases.
在一六六五年死亡的总人数中,百分之九十三都是死于感染性疾病
And so they're already very safe, very effective vaccines available for many infectious diseases.
所以这些疫苗非常安全有效,常备用来对付各种传染病
How come these have risen above infectious diseases over the last several hundred years?
在过去的几百年中,它们的致死率是如何超过感染性疾病的的
In contrast, if you look at a U.S.City, ten years ago in 1997 for example, then people still died but they didn't die predominantly from infectious diseases.
相反,我们看美国的城市,例如在十年前,即一九九七年,人们还是会死亡,但是最主要的死因不再是感染性疾病
Usually it involves pieces of the infectious agent itself, to cause that engagement.
通常疫苗自身也包含部分传染性介质,以便达成匹配
Now in some--in the chronic respiratory diseases there's some infection but most of the other things are caused by lifestyle or by other factors, not the infectious diseases.
如今一些,如慢性呼吸道疾病,有一些是传染所得,但大多数,都是生活方式或其他因素导致的,而不是感染性疾病
So, it first infects you because you breathe in some of the infectious agent.
所以,只要吸入病原体,你就会被感染
It was easy to tell if somebody had an infectious disease but you might not have known that they had cancer at that time and they just died.
如果有人患有感染性疾病,那很容易判断,但在那个时候医生可能不知道,病人得的就是癌症,病人就这么死去了
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