> Some 3 million children die annually from undernutrition. Diarrhea kills over 800,000 people annually, and malaria kills more than 450,000. That sounds like

> Some 3 million children die annually from undernutrition. Diarrhea kills over 800,000 people annually, and malaria kills more than 450,000. That sounds like great progress. I could easily imagine that, even in absolute numbers, not per-capita numbers, that might be the lowest rate of preventable illness in human history.