Malaria causes a million deaths per year, and schistosomiasis, which is a parasitic disease, is unfortunately a common cause of death in the world.

疟疾每年造成一百万死亡,而血吸虫病,这是一种寄生虫病,不幸的是,它是世界上很常见的死因

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I just wanted to show you this last graph, or this last set of statistics to go from causes of death in the U. S.

我想让你们看的最后一张图,或者说最后一组统计数据,不是关于美国人的死因

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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

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Those are the number one and two causes of death.

它们在死因榜上分列第一第二位

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to causes of death in the world, to illustrate that what happens in the world around us in the U. S. isn't necessarily the same asin the U.S. isn't necessarily the same as what happens in other places around the world.

而是关于世界上所有人的死因,它说明同美国的情况相比,世界其他地区的情况,有所不同

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