3.8 million deaths worldwide!

Do you get Parade Magaine? In today's paper, the issue of Parade Magazine has an article about a group of physicians who serve at Brigham and Women's Hospitals new Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequities. The article lists ACUTE RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS as the highest killer worldwide, the number of deaths numbering 3.8 million. In second place, with 2.8 million deaths, is AIDS. After that, Diarrheal Diseases with 1.8 million, TB with 1.6 million, Maleria with 1.2 million, and finally, Measles with .5 million. The article is not yet online but in about a week or so, it will be at http://archive.parade.com/2005/0403/0403_doctors.html