Why is it that we are fixated by obscure diseases?? The first reported case of H1N1 in the US got national news exposure as have reported cases of West Nile Virus and Eastern Equine Encephalitis. It's time to put our concern and resources to cure the causes of more common diseases that cause hundred of thousands if not millions of death annually. We have too many deaths due to cancers, diabetes, common flu, car accidents, etc and just don't seem to care proportionally. The odds are that those causes will get us too and not West Nile, H1N1, or Eastern Equine Encephalitis (E.E.E.).
According to WHO a few facts about diabetes...
- More than 220 million people worldwide have diabetes.
- In 2005, an estimated 1.1 million people died from diabetes.
- Almost 80% of diabetes deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries.
- Almost half of diabetes deaths occur in people under the age of 70 years; 55% of diabetes deaths are in women.
- WHO projects that diabetes deaths will double between 2005 and 2030.
My Mom died Nov 22, 1995 she would of turned 91 this Sept 24 but diabetes got her too.
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