Facts are usually disturbing, so we try to avoid them at all costs.
During the past 25 years, only about 500,000 people have died from the effects of earthquakes. 300,000 of that number occurred last December during the tsunami. Last year, 2 million children under the age of 5 died in India alone, most because of poor nutrition or bad water. In Africa, malaria kills 2,800 children under the age of 5, each day of the year.
And speaking of earthquakes. The most powerful earthquakes in America’s history occurred in the winter of 1810/1811. These occurred along the New Madrid fault zone in Missouri. They were powerful enough to fell trees in the forest, change the course of the Mississippi river and ring bells in churches in Virginia and Boston. Do you want to guess how stringent the building codes are in St Louis and in Memphis?
Steven - You got it right. There is a complete imbalance in teh attention paid to malaria compared to other diseases and natural events. We are trying to correct that by getting 99 million people all over the world to shoot a basket for malaria on March 19 - more info at www.dunkmalaria.org
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