The earthquake, which struck in the early morning hours, exacted a tragic human toll, with 5,800 dead and another 50,000 people injured.

发生在凌晨的地震造成了5,800人死亡和50,000人受伤的悲惨后果。

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Throughout humanhistory, epidemics have come and gone with some infecting and/or killingthousands and lasting for years and others taking less of a human toll.

纵观人类历史，流行病来了又走，有些感染带到来然后杀死成千上万的人并且持续数百年，另外一些流行病导致少量的人员伤亡的。

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The immediate toll can be measured in loss of human life, livestock, crops and food stores, and in destroyed homes and irrigation systems.

近期的损失可以用死亡人数，家畜、庄稼和粮食储备的损失以及摧毁的房屋和灌溉系统来衡量。

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But there should not be war." One thing nearly all South Koreans agree on is the devastating human toll that all-out war would take on the peninsula,recalling - from direct experience or their education - that one and a half million civilians died during the three-year Korean War.

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Human-rights groups say the death toll was at least 15.

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While authorities add up the human toll from Hurricane Katrina, companies are sorting out their roles.

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Since 1946, several organizations have tracked the number of armed conflicts and their human toll world-wide.

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Their faces peering from newspaper pages are daily reminders of the human toll of an inhuman crime.

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