Yeesh. I knew it was more than 10 million, but without a cite I didn't want to exaggerate. So I guess WHO is on par with Stalin and Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge combined. Nice.
Even the DUmmies will understand.
And the 40 million figure is since the early 1980s. I think Malaria had been virtually wiped out some time in the 1960s so the actual number of deaths is much higher than that.