成千上万的人因遗传性糖尿病而痛苦。糖尿病是一种杀死胰腺细胞、使身体丧失调节血糖水平功能的疾病。
Hundreds of thousands of people suffer from hereditary diabetes, a condition that destroys cells in the pancreas and leaves the body unable to regulate blood sugar levels.
根据世界卫生组织这一周的早些时候发表的数据显示，2005年因肺结核死亡的人数达到160万人，而死于艾滋病和疟疾的人数则分别为300万和100万人。
According to figures released earlier this week by the World Health Organisation, 1.6m died of the disease in 2005, compared with about 3m for AIDS and 1m for malaria.
极快的传播速度使得结核病一直是世界上第7大致死原因，每年因结核病死亡的人数超过150万人。
Such smoldering spread is one of the reasons why TB remains the seventh-leading cause of death worldwide, killing more than 1.5 million people every year.
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