Comments on: People killed this month:

By: Steven

Steven — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:46:43 +0000

That type of mosquito never goes to far from its spot in Africa.

By: Tu

Tu — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:16:00 +0000

I mean rich countries lol. Malaria in usually in poor countries.

By: Tu

Tu — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:15:09 +0000

That’s in the united states. Malaria death is global.

By: Tu

Tu — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:06:35 +0000

The death rate is low because we live in a rich and technology advanced enough nation who were capable of preventing this disease. If it was Africa with H1N1, it would be a different story. It is a serious matter and people have become numb to the issue of H1N1, which is making them make such ignorant comments about how it really isn’t dangerous. I guess the media is easy to blame.

By: kellyg

kellyg — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:05:52 +0000

Obama made swine flu an national crisis. Now, he has the power to make everyone get a flu shot whether they want to or not. (And no, I’m not attacking anyone).

By: Aquapussx

Aquapussx — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:51:59 +0000

the by-product of your birth, thanks.

By: Aquapussx

Aquapussx — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:23:32 +0000

What is malaria? I know what the H1N1 Flu is, but I don’t know what malaria is. Would somebody explain?

By: Smarty

Smarty — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:06:47 +0000

Hey, um moron, graphjam’s graphs are supposed to be funny. In no way are they grounded in reality. Don’t ask him why he didn’t include other stuff.

By: Smarty

Smarty — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:04:15 +0000

Yeah, Malaria doesn’t kill all that many people. Shut up Nameless.

Top 10 Causes of Death in 2001

Heart disease and stroke were the leading causes of death in 2001, regardless of countries’ incomes, the study shows.

However, other leading causes of death differed depending on countries’ incomes. Here is the list for high-income countries:

1. Heart disease
2. Stroke
3. Lung cancer
4. Lower respiratory infections
5. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
6. Colon and rectum cancers
7. Alzheimer’s disease
8. Type 2 diabetes
9. Breast cancer
10. Stomach cancer

By: Scarlet

Scarlet — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:50:50 +0000

Cats,crayons,cheese,chalks,Colgate,cherries,children and clocks! They’re all dangerous!

By: tuna

tuna — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:12:08 +0000

This is ridiculous! Swine flu has been talked about way too much. Malaria kills 1 to 2 million people yearly. There are other things too. What about cancer ar cardiac arrest? You can’t have a graph with just 2 things that kill people. What about the regualr flu? If you were to really research the leading causes of death worldwide you would see that war and cancer and malnutrition are way more descructive than the freakin’ swine flu. I don’t really care about the dumb swine flu. It’s treatable! Calm down already!!!

By: fefw

fefw — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:35:10 +0000

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By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:37:26 +0000

Antibiotics don’t help viruses…flu and H1N1 being viruses.

By: JG

JG — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:49:17 +0000

If we all work together, we can be a greater cause of death than malaria and H1N1 COMBINED!

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:56:47 +0000

Malaria had nearly been eradicated until DDT was banned.

By: eye-roller

eye-roller — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:18:23 +0000

Back to the whole swine flu hype. I remember seeing a news story about it that warned people to “Avoid people who are coughing.” I was like, “yea cuz that wont start a panic or anything.” And despite thinking myself smarter than that I now flinch whenever someone near me coughs! :/

By: crazy people

crazy people — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:48 +0000

after looking through some other posts, ive concluded that it was u-no-it, and not iblis, who randomly started bashing obama. i could be wrong, but this is an educated guess.

By: crazy people

crazy people — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:59:09 +0000

“I’d guess that you’re a religious fanatic.”

religious fanatic, right-wing nutjob, whats the difference?

By: crazy people

crazy people — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:35:19 +0000

btw, im liberal. does that make you any smarter than me or make you better? no, it only means we have different viewpoints. no need to bash liberals just cause you arent one.

By: crazy people

crazy people — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:34:03 +0000

and the problem with conservatives is that they bash liberals WAY too much.

By: crazy people

crazy people — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:32:18 +0000

i find it hilarious that this graph was about diseases, yet all the people posting comments suck politics into the matter. a notable example was when someone (either iblis or u-no-it) started bashing obama. since when was this graph about obama?

anyway, on the actual graph, i totally agree that the media blew this whole swine flu thing out of proportion. although even though malaria is a huge killer, it does seem like its the only other thing. the creator shouldve put cancer, heart attack, stroke, accidents, etc on the graph also.

P.S. i know that im gonna get bashed on the first paragraph of this post. and i couldnt care less about the idiots who do.

By: katarina

katarina — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:46:57 +0000

to the Geez guy:f**k you you for being so funny

By: wtf by @!%%

wtf by @!%% — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:41:53 +0000

hhahaahahaha that si so true!!1!:mrgreen:

By: cheesebrrgrr

cheesebrrgrr — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:59:11 +0000

Don’t forget about heart attacks, cancer, hunger,TB, hydrophobia, hepatitis B, AIDS, menengitis, rabies, Ebola, and all other common ilnesses. Don’t forget about animals and some endangered plants, they have a right to live.

By: cheesebrrgrr

cheesebrrgrr — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:49:05 +0000

I’m lost, what happened?

By: cheesebrrgrr

cheesebrrgrr — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:48:01 +0000

*Clap clap clap* Go bob!

By: Internet Soldier

Internet Soldier — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:44:27 +0000

LMAO, so true

By: TheGabe

TheGabe — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:12:43 +0000

Innit

By: TheGabe

TheGabe — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:11:11 +0000

Nah man malaria kills way more than all of those.
I heard somewhere that malaria+ other diseases carried by mosquitoes is the cause of more deaths than all the other causes combined.

By: Koolkev

Koolkev — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:30:26 +0000

It’s a win, you earned it.

By: snow

snow — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:03:40 +0000

ya they do it takes a couple gens but they do
and has anyone else herd of another mosqito disease called west nile?

By: Poster

Poster — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:05:12 +0000

The emergency anti-flu medicine that has been stockpiled as of late in many developed countries, especially in Russia (per capita they have some of the most) is rather ineffective, expires quickly, sometimes creates symptoms mimicing flu infection (making treatment and containment absolute hell), and when used quickly generates residue in local water supplies, exposing wildlife. This exposure quickly and consistently generates resistance in the disease.

Further and clearer information on Flu is available at the speaker website TED.com, specifically in a presentation on the Spanish Flu epidemic.

By: nakedmongoose

nakedmongoose — Sun, 31 May 2009 21:11:00 +0000

if only mexicans were like that…

By: Leonardo Cabrini

Leonardo Cabrini — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:17:44 +0000

This graphic critizices that the importance the world gives to a disease is direct related to whom this disease is affecting: devolped or poor countries. If 1 US citizen is killed by the Swine Flu the media just go crazy, despite the 1,000,000 annual death caused by Malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa. But nevermind, go to bed…

By: bob

bob — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:10:33 +0000

“Millions of people have died from malaria as a result of the banning of DDT.”

Right wing claptrap. There IS NO BAN on DDT for disease control. However DDT is only effective in certain environments AND the mosquito’s develop immunity to it on average in 7 years. However, it still used extensively in malarial areas, so blaming deaths on a non-existent ban is purely irrational.

Get your facts straight before you post.

By: Dr. KJE

Dr. KJE — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:51:42 +0000

Well looking at all global deaths put together has less conceptual meaning as everyone who is born will die of something eventually.

However malaria deaths are almost always children and pregnant women.

UNICEF estimates 25,000 children die every day.
And, the WHO estimates 3,000 children die of malaria each day.

So if you imagine the graph, the malaria part is in no way small.

By: in theory

in theory — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:26:26 +0000

the should be worried. but then again, they can make a profit out of it.

By: kashmir

kashmir — Sun, 10 May 2009 08:11:25 +0000

Denial is a very basic self defending system. It is not working though. Those people who worry about pandemy make your life safe.

This diagramm is loosing the focus. At the first month of the first infection of Malaria, how many people died in it? Of course we have no record, but probably a very few. Malaria spread in areas where there is aserious problem with healthcare. But H1N1 could possibly kill in Afrika, Asia, Australia, Europe, and America too. And believe me, it will make the bigest kill in Afrika.

Statistics shows, every 30 years a big flu pandemic is coming, thats why the scientists, WHO, and the governments are worried.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Sat, 09 May 2009 07:38:14 +0000

Swine flu, not dam flu
Damn.

By: Jessen

Jessen — Sat, 09 May 2009 06:17:56 +0000

they didnt have antibiotics in 1918. millions of people would have died from regular flu, not to mention tuberculosis, diptheria, etc…….

By: woot

woot — Sat, 09 May 2009 03:15:44 +0000

its a joke, im hungry

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 09 May 2009 03:06:45 +0000

A little (notably in the US along the gulf coast, and [I may be incorrect, now] northern Queensland, Australia)

The “richer” countries have several advantages with regard to malaria.

They tend to have Temperate or Continental climates. Most malaria carrier mosquitoes cannot thrive where frosts occur.
Developed countries have widespread drainage and water distribution systems, which, though generally considered as “damaging nature”, destroy much of the preferred mosquito habitat.
Outside Africa, Malaria is usually in a milder form called Plasmodium Vivax, which does not bring anywhere near the death toll than “malignant” malaria.

By: LadyLuck

LadyLuck — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:50:24 +0000

Maybe we should send them all fly-swatters.

By: Diogo Abdalla

Diogo Abdalla — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:43:35 +0000

Ok, but… uhh…

Do we see the Malaria in rich countries?

…

By: u-no-it

u-no-it — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:24:08 +0000

roxie, I didn’t miss his point at all. What he said was that man is no better and of no more value than any other species, whether it be animal or plant. His point is that our advancement as a species has had a deleterious effect on the planet and other species and we should somehow be ashamed and rethink whether we should ourselves take advantage of those advances. The problem with that philosophy is that when you take it to its logical conclusion, it leads those in the developed world to impose those beliefs on the third world. Its practical application in the real world leads to cases like you have with malaria where millions suffer because they are denied access to advancements the rest of us enjoy in the name of “saving the parts of the planet that we still can.” It ends up leaving the third world in the third century because those of us in developed parts of the world feel guilty for the damage we have already done. What those parts of the world need is development and growth. But because “we know what is best for them” we try to keep them in the Stone Age. And I am not naive. I know we have problems, but stopping scientific advancement or denying those advancements to those in the third world is not the answer. In fact, scientific advancement is the answer. I agree that resources are badly mismanaged. There is enough food produced in California alone every year to feed the entire world if it were only managed correctly. If we taught the third world how to “exploit the land” they would be able to take care of themselves. As for the war over resources, man has been doing that since the dawn of time. That is no modern phenomenon. Man has a knack for creating problems. But we also have a great ability to fix and correct those problems in creative and effective ways. The problem with liberals is that they have an emotional reaction to problems and allow that emotion, rather than reason, to guide their actions. They end up working under a paradigm that is largely bereft of facts and realistic options and that often leads to their solutions being worse than the original problem.

By: sisyphusredux

sisyphusredux — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:11:32 +0000

Howard Zinn.

Lordie help us all.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I think I’ll just get back to reading ibn Warraq’s “In Defense of the West”-it’s a scholarly critique of Edward Said’s “Orientalism”, and a devastating indictment of self-hating Western pseudointellectuals. Although, unfortunately, dear ibn Warraq seems to have appropriated not a few of MY ideas. Dammit.

Gawd, I love this stuff….

By: iblis

iblis — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:00:47 +0000

- “Oddly enough, I happen to be an atheist-not that it matters.
And, yes-I do value my country over others” …

“No, wait, there’s also room in there for nationalism.”

- “Now listen closely….this is called HUMAN NATURE.” …

“It’s a fact that throughout human history, man has needed to take advantage of others in order to progress”

-”The problem with idealists is that you don’t recognize and deal with human nature as it is-instead you try to coerce everyone into behaving the way you think they should.”…

“I’m not saying one or the other is right. I’m just saying it’s wrong not to think about it.”

- “This breathtakingly idiotic way of thinking is precisely what is responsible for 35 million dead from malaria, more than 100 million dead from communism, etc, etc, etc.” …

“When you look at the facts past the sensationalism, it’s hard to not take an analytical posture.” (how idiotic!)

- “Learn to deal with the world of the real. You’ll get a lot more accomplished. And maybe, just maybe, not so many children, pregnant women, and just plain people won’t have to suffer and die because of your asinine “idealism”.”

“If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. ” – Howard Zinn

By: roxie

roxie — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:25:52 +0000

u-no-it, i think you missed the point completely. he said, “I hardly think that throwing away tons of food (to maintain production standards), exploiting the land, contaminating water supplies, etc., constitutes as a basic need for survival. In fact, it only leads to what we are living at the time: pandemics, war over resources, poverty, and so on”, i hardly think he is taking a posture of saying that anyone that is in an accident is wrong for getting treatment… or for eating food, like aaron says (completely absurd argument if you ask me)
if you dont think there is something wrong with the world that we live in, then youre both pretty naive and in a complete state of denial. but hey, thats what you were brought up to believe, and there is a reason for that too.

By: roxie

roxie — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:19:32 +0000

dear iblis,
i dont think anyone here will ever understand your point bc theyre too focused on pointing out wether you are lib or conservative, or pretty much just relying on lolurdumb arguments. so far, even though your point might seem inhuman to most, i totally understand what youre saying. especially when you said “Doesn’t our own progress bear upon us?”, it reminded me of a part in Flaubert’s Madame Bovary that said (sorry that this is in spanish):
“El orador, remontándose al origen de las sociedades, pintó las épocas bárbaras, cuando los hombres vivían en el fondo de los bosques y se alimentaban de las bellotas; después arrancaron las pieles de las fieras, vistieron telas, trazaron zurcos, plantaron cepas. ¿Fue aquello un bien, no había en esos descubrimientos más inconvenientes que ventajas? El señor Derozerays se planteaba este problema.”
(this roughly translates to: “the orator, looking back to the origins of society, spoke of the barbaric ages when man lived deep in the forest and fed on nuts; then they tore the skins off of beasts, digged furrows, planted stocks. was that a great good, or werent there more inconveniences than advantages in these discoveries?”) this book was written mid-ninteenth century, and it still applies today.

By: u-no-it

u-no-it — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:09:31 +0000

So I guess that if you get into a horrible wreck you are going to pass on all of the life-saving surgeries and medical advances that will keep you alive and help you recover. Or what if it was your child? The amount of resources employed in this treatment could easily cover medical expenses for dozens of children in less privileged countries. No, my bet is that you would take the treatment for yourself and your child. And I don’t blame you.