The region also accounted for 72% of the world’s AIDS-related deaths in 2008.

该区域还占2008年全球艾滋病死亡的72%。

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Of the 1.8 million deaths in 2008, or 4, 930 deaths a day, half a million were Aids patients.

2008年的180万死者（或者说每天4930人死亡）中，有半数是艾滋病患者。

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Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, with 12.7 millions new cases and 7.6 million deaths in 2008.

癌症是全世界首要死因，2008年共有1270万新发癌症病例及760万例死亡。

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Human rights organizations have reported more than 50 cases of sorcery-related deaths in Papua New Guinea in 2008.

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Ryan's story is all too familiar. According to government estimates, of the more than 30,000 U.S.highway deaths reported in 2008, about 12 percent involved drivers between the ages of 15 and 20.

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In its most recent report, the WHO estimates that of the 57 million deaths in 2008, 36 million, or 63 percent, were due to non-communicable disease.

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According to the website pistehors.com, which recorded climbing deaths in the French Alps between 2003 and 2008, the number of deaths seen Thursday is unusual in a single incident.

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The government will be nervous of any news from Qinghai's disaster that could give further ammunition to domestic critics of the shoddy construction of schools in Sichuan that was widely blamed for the deaths of thousands of children in the 2008 earthquake.

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