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> globally vs. > in the US Speaking of incomparable scales...

• rev_bird 12y ago
  Time to break out some napkin math: 627,000 malaria deaths * 90% in sub-Saharan Africa[1] = 564,000 malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa. 564,000 deaths / population of Africa (~815 million) = 69.2 African malaria deaths per 100,000 people. -- About 32,743 U.S. flu deaths per year, recently.[2] 32,742 deaths / population of U.S. (~316 million) = 10.4 U.S. flu deaths per 100,000 people. -- It looks like, by these numbers, that malaria in Africa is about 6.7 times as deadly as the flu in America. [1] http://www.who.int/malaria/media/world_malaria_report_2013/en/ http://www.who.int/malaria/media/world_malaria_report_2013/e... [2] http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/08/26/129456941/annual-flu-death-average-fluctuates-depending-on-how-you-slice-it http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/08/26/129456941/annual-...
  • adventured 12y ago
    Not to mention, we can eliminate an extreme majority of malaria deaths, and we can do so at a relatively low cost per person. Something the parent is ignoring entirely.
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