What disease kills more people than any other???

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prncessang228	i believe it's a close tie between hiv/aids and cancer. there is no treatment for both. in third world countries and in places where poverty is high-aids/hiv tends to be massive due to lack of funding to provide people with education,medication,and things needed to prevent the spread of the disease. cancer is high because there is no cure for it and it tends to run in families Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

spiko	Aids Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Claire W	The "Black Death" in Europe during dark ages. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

keykey	probably aids because that does more killing than like any other disease like cancer or something that is not that serious Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Terry Yucky	Infection. Nosocomial or acquired infection Most people who are hospitalised died not fromtheir original disease but with complications which arised from acquired hospital infection Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

cheekybluebed	probably cancer god bless there souls Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

vamedic4	Everybody shut up, it's heart disease. Because as Americans we are lazy as hell. Just keep eating those fries, boys and girls -you're on the fast track to an early demise too. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

rahul_sett1981	Malaria!! Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

jaxkipiluvsponch	I'm going to make an educated guess because I see a huge number of these kinds of people at our and area hospitals, cardiovascular diseases. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

clare_debenham	Depends if you mean worldwide or just in the West. Waterborne infections like dysentery and cholera - it's scary how many people in Africa don't have access to clean water - so they either dehydrate (and die) or drink the water and get sick (and die)... Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Sufi	i thought it was heart disease. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

sithy	malaria, or alternitavly, my cooking. lol Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

markhatter	ignorance? Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

jan s	In the western world it has to be Heart disease Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Monkey Harris	Religion Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Fox Hunter	religion Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

carol j	Heart disease Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Leni	I think its probobly cancer!! Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Vijay S	AIDS. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Euphojim	TEN LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH, MID-1990s (1) Heart Disease (2) Malignant Neoplasms (3) Cerebrovascular Disease (4) Accidents & Adverse Effects (5) Pneumonia (6) Atherosclerosis (7) Mental Disorders (8) Senility Without Psychosis (9) Diabetes Mellitus (10) Embolism & Thrombosis Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Dr_J	Humorous: Life....because "Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. Serious: The most up to date information I can find on this is in the 1997 World Health Organisation's Annual Report (see sources for link) In 1997: 52.2 million people died 17.3m were due to infectious and parasitic diseases of which HIV/AIDS accounted for 2.3m. 15.3m died from 'circulatory diseases'. This is also a combination of various diseases, which could be further divided and sub categorised almost ad infinitum until each category accounted for a much smaller percentage of the total. However, you can't get such accurate data on a worldwide basis. WHO have subdivided it into: Coronary Heart Disease: 7.2m Cerbrovascular Disease: 4.6m Other Heart Disease: 3.0m I would say that "Vascular disease" which would include Coronary and cerbro- and also peripheral (not included in WHO data) is a disease entity with a common cause (atherosclerosis) and therefore caused the death of more than 11.8m peole in 1997. A more recent WHO report (2004) states that HIV/AIDS became the leading cause of death in the 15 - 59 age range. This is quite a specific statement, and if it had surpased vascular disease, they would have stated it as such. SO Although AIDS related deaths is certainly on the rise, it would have to have had a serious increase from 2.3m to rival the 11.8m caused by vascular disease (or the 15m of "circulatory disease") My Answer: Vascular disease or Atherosclerosis Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

masteroflisa	probably malaria... Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

colin050659	OLD AGE Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

frenziedmonkey	heart disease Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Pinhead	Death kills most people, although the disease of war is doing a good job at the present time. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No