Bacterial diseases have a long and brutal history.

细菌性疾病具有悠久而残酷的历史。

For example, say we were studying the bacterial disease tuberculosis, or TB, in 2012 for the whole world.

例如，我们正在研究 2012 年全世界的细菌性疾病结核病。

Tuberculosis is a bacterial disease that kills almost 2 million people each year, overwhelmingly in poor and middle-income countries.

肺结核是一种细菌性疾病，每年导致近200万人死亡，绝大多数发生在贫穷和中等收入国家。

That led to a small outbreak of the bacterial disease Typhus which eventually disappeared in the summer of 1940.

这导致了细菌性斑疹伤寒的小规模爆发，这在 1940 年夏天才结束。

In 1346, a bacterial disease known as the bubonic plague, or " Black Death" , had crept into Western Europe.

1346 年，一种被称为流行性淋巴腺鼠疫或“黑死病”的细菌疾病悄悄进入西欧。

In the 14th century, the bacterial disease bubonic plague killed millions of people in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.

14世纪，细菌性疾病黑死病在欧洲、亚洲、中东和北非夺去了数百万人的生命。

Tuberculosis is a bacterial disease that spreads through the air.

结核病是一种通过空气传播的细菌性疾病。

Cholera is an infectious bacterial disease that people usually get from infected water supplies.

霍乱是一种传染性细菌性疾病，人们通常从受感染的供水系统中感染。

Anthrax is a bacterial disease that can cause several kinds of sickness depending on the method of infection.

炭疽病是一种细菌性疾病， 可根据感染方式引起多种疾病。

Some bacterial diseases are not directly caused by a bacterium itself, but by a toxin produced by the bacterium.

有些细菌性疾病不是由细菌本身直接引起的， 而是由细菌产生的毒素引起的。

But now we know that it's just a bacterial disease and all you have to do is just take a seven day or ten day course of antibiotics and so that's great.

但现在，我们知道这只是一种细菌性疾病，只需服用7天或10天的抗生素，真不错。

Few choose nakedness when they can be clothed, the frosts of winter when they can be warm, or the misery of bacterial diseases when sanitation is offered to them.

很少有人在可以穿衣服的时候选择裸体，在可以暖和的时候选择冬天的霜冻，或者在提供卫生设施的时候选择细菌性疾病的痛苦。