Haiti?................Chicago?................
Not taking abortion into account, for some reason. That would flip a few tables.
If abortions were included as mortality, the chart would look very different.
First, the land of physical contrast can break anything. ‘A.W.A.’ we say (‘Africa wins again’) as the freezer melt spreads a year of collected isolates over the floor. Or again, ‘the Malawi rule of two’ which states that in order to have anything working all the time, two must be kept ready — be it fluorescent microscope or flat iron, PCR block or plumbing wrench.People break too, and some very quickly — like the surgeon I remember years ago in Uganda who spent his first African night operating on an injured young woman. She later died in the ward for lack of a blood transfusion and he went home on the next plane…A.W.A.
From Africa wins again, published in Current Biology, 1 January 2000.
Guess I’ll cross the Sandals in South Sudan off my vacation list.
According to the actuaries; life expectancy in the US would be way higher except for gang-bangers, car wrecks and suicides.
Yes, the domestic-savage gangs kill enough people to affect the statistics....mostly each other.