Comments on: How difficult would it be to give Africans hope against malaria? http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/04/06/how-difficult-would-it-be-to-give-africans-hope-against-malaria/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:01:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: grumpypilgrim http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/04/06/how-difficult-would-it-be-to-give-africans-hope-against-malaria/#comment-17482 grumpypilgrim Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:57:32 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/04/06/how-difficult-would-it-be-to-give-africans-hope-against-malaria/#comment-17482 According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC): "Each year 350–500 million cases of malaria occur worldwide, and over one million people die, most of them young children in sub-Saharan Africa. In areas of Africa with high malaria transmission, an estimated 990,000 people died of malaria in 1995 – over 2700 deaths per day, or 2 deaths per minute." In other words, malaria kills about the same number of humans (mostly children) *every day* as died in the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers. I wonder how many lives the so-called "pro-life" Bush Administration might have saved if it had spent the Iraq budget eradicating malaria instead of flushing it down the Baghdad black hole. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC):
“Each year 350–500 million cases of malaria occur worldwide, and over one million people die, most of them young children in sub-Saharan Africa.
In areas of Africa with high malaria transmission, an estimated 990,000 people died of malaria in 1995 – over 2700 deaths per day, or 2 deaths per minute.”

In other words, malaria kills about the same number of humans (mostly children) *every day* as died in the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers. I wonder how many lives the so-called “pro-life” Bush Administration might have saved if it had spent the Iraq budget eradicating malaria instead of flushing it down the Baghdad black hole.

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