There are also the opportunity costs: what cures for disease, what other useful discoveries might we never know of, because a habitat is destroyed forever, or land is polluted beyond all use?

还有所谓的机会成本：什么东西能够治愈疾病，还有其他有用的新发现，也许我们永远不会知道，因为栖息地被永远破坏，或土地被污染而没法使用。

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When famine or plague comes to the land, or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers, or when enemies besiege them in any of their cities, whatever disaster or disease may come

国中若有饥荒，瘟疫，旱风，霉烂，蝗虫，蚂蚱，或有仇敌犯境，围困城邑，无论遭遇什么灾祸疾病

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When famine or plague comes to the land, or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers, or when an enemy besieges them in any of their cities, whatever disaster or disease may come

国中若有饥荒，瘟疫，旱风，霉烂，蝗虫，蚂蚱，或有仇敌犯境围困城邑，无论遭遇什么灾祸疾病

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Most were driven from their homes into inhospitable land where they died from hunger and disease.

CNN: Commentary: No one is safe in Congo strife

Thousands of farmers have been spreading straw soaked in disinfectant around the boundaries of their land, in a bid to create a disease-resistant barrier.

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"The cease-fire enabled us to conduct disease surveillance with the freedom of movement, not fearing land mines and getting shot, " said Dr. Nabil Azziz, who coordinated Sudan's national Guinea worm eradication program until 2007.

CNN: Guinea worm a greater challenge than smallpox