When victory was not achieved by 2005, donor interest began to flag as AIDS, avian flu and other threats got more attention.

到了2005年，消除碘缺乏的目标还没有实现时，捐赠人开始失去兴趣，而转向AIDS、禽流感和其他更受到关注的威胁。

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That is because Indonesia's health minister has chosen a weapon that may prove more useful than today's best vaccines in tackling such emerging threats as avian flu: transparency.

之所以这样说是因为：这位印尼的卫生部长选择了一件武器：信息公开。它可能比现今对付禽流感之类的新威胁最好的疫苗更行之有效。

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Then you've got people tying illegal immigrants to terrorist threats, to healthcare threats, avian flu and all the like, threats to racial balance of the country, national identity.

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