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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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Why the change in infectious diseases?

为什么感染性疾病致死率发生了变化

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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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