But new issues kept intruding, like hurricanes and epidemics.

但是新的问题层出不穷，比如龙卷风和流行疾病。

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In some areas death rates have actually risen as a result of extreme poverty and epidemics.

在某些地区，由于极端贫困和流行病，死亡率实际上已经上升。

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Even if health facilities themselves are not affected during disease outbreaks and epidemics, their services and provision of safe care may be.

即使在疾病暴发和疾病流行期间卫生机构本身并未受到影响，但其所提供的服务和安全治疗也会有所影响。

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Yogan Pillay is acting director of the National Department of Health that oversees the HIV/AIDS and TB epidemics in South Africa.

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Law enforcement agents should be able to test the toxin found in the letters to determine its potency and purity, as well as learn what chemicals may have been used to extract it from widely available castor beans, said Murray Cohen, the founder of the Atlanta-based Frontline Foundation, which trains workers on preparedness and response to bioterrorism and epidemics.

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The Gelede takes place every year after the harvests, at important events and during drought or epidemics and is characterized by carved masks, dances and chants, sung in the Yoruba language and retracing the history and myths of the Yoruba-Nago people.

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Vaccines are developed for polio, TB, AIDS, bird-flu and mad-cow type epidemics and pandemics that periodically threaten to envelop the world, with the feared trends actually resulting not in annihilation of the human species, but in an improvement in life expectancies.

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