But vaccines, and particularly in the last hundred years, vaccines have been one of the most important elements in our progress.
但是疫苗,尤其是在近一百年来,疫苗已经成为,感染性疾病防治进程中最重要的一环
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
They died from other things: only 4% died from infectious diseases.
他们死于一些其他的原因,感染性疾病只占百分之四
Why the change in infectious diseases?
为什么感染性疾病致死率发生了变化
In other places, infectious disease is a much bigger part of their life and a much greater risk of death from infectious diseases and parasitic diseases if you live in places other than the U. S. or Western Europe, for example.
在其他地区,感染性疾病,对当地人们的生活构成了更大威胁,他们死于感染性疾病或者,寄生虫之类疾病风险更高,如果你生活在,美国或欧洲之外的地方的话
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