Potato shortages caused at least one million deaths and a wave of Irish immigration to America.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

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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Diet, as we said before, is having a big impact, so estimates are that you can attribute two point six million deaths per year globally to low intake of fruits and vegetables.

如我们之前所说,饮食对健康至关重要,所以大致估计每年全球,有260万人的死亡可归结于,水果与蔬菜的摄入过少

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The number of deaths could reach seventeen million a year.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The WHO says if current trends continue, tobacco-related deaths will climb to at least eight million a year by 2030.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

A UN report said it was the first time that deaths of children had dropped below nine million.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

The report says if all countries immunize 90 percent of children under five with vaccines already available,that would prevent another two million deaths a year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

"It does not really matter because in the best case scenario we have today,we will still have a moderate virus that is projected to cause several million deaths extra deaths than the usual influenza annual mortality, which means that even in the best-case scenario, we do have an emergency on our hand,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

"More alarmingly,WHO estimates if the combined effect of decreased financial and political commitment were to be sustained or continued, this could result to a return of a half a million measles deaths each year by 2012, wiping out the gains made over the past 18 years."

VOA: standard.2010.05.21