The onset of symptoms is fast, within 24 hours. If allowed to progress, you can die from bacterial meningitis.

这些症状发生得很快，通常在24小时内。如果任由其进展，患者会死于细菌性脑膜炎。

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Today, most people die from five things — heart disease, cancer, stroke, neurodegenerative and infectious diseases — and we can make faster progress on these and other problems.

今天，大多数人死亡的原因无外以下五种：心脏病、癌症、中风、神经退行症和传染病。我们有能力在这些方面取得更快的进展。

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A report is due in June that is expected to show what progress has been made toward saving the lives of mothers, babies and children who do not need to die.

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Though the world won't quite meet the goal, we've still made great progress: The number of children under 5 years old who die world-wide fell to 6.9 million in 2011, down from 12 million in 1990 (despite a growing global population).

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