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I've had vomiting and diahrea and they didn't kill me. So that's a counter example. I also eat sprouted potatoes occasionally and have never experienced so much

• pdpi 5y ago
  Fair enough. Let's remove personal anecdotes from the equation then, and look at the big picture. According to the WHO, diarrhoeal diseases are, world-wide, the second biggest cause of death for children under the age of 5, after only respiratory infections. That's approximately 3 deaths per 1000 births. For Somalia specifically, it's over 13 per mille, for Nigeria it's around 10. By comparison, that number is instead around 0.01 deaths per mille in western Europe and the US. To really put it into perspective, in aggregate across all causes of death, the US has an infant mortality rate of 6.5 per mille. Let that sit with you for a moment: Take all the small children that die in the US in any given year. Now double that number. Now imagine they all died to to a diarrhoeal disease. That is how much diarrhoea can kill.