About 10 million children under the age of five died in 1999, most from preventable diseases.

1999年有大约1000万五岁以下的儿童夭折，其中多数死于可以预防的疾病。

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Some 130 million children never went to school at all, and 10 million children died every year of preventable diseases.

大约1.3亿儿童从没上过学，每年都有1000万儿童死于可以预防的疾病。

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But today, the health and vitality of our nation is at risk because of preventable diseases caused by poor eating habits.

但是今天，因为本可以阻止的由不良饮食习惯导致的疾病，我们国家的健康与活力遭遇风险。

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"GAVI's goal over the next five years, by twenty-fifteen, is to immunize millions more children and save an additional four million children's lives, purely by providing basic vaccines against diseases that are basically almost non-existent in rich countries, as well as providing new vaccines against pneumonia,diarrheal diseases and then hopefully HPV and some other vaccine-preventable diseases."

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And if you have insurance, then you are less likely to develop preventable diseases.

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People forget how many kids used to die young from vaccine preventable diseases.

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And make no mistake about it: if measles, whooping cough, polio, and other vaccine-preventable diseases return, children will die.

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