Ah, but again, you are mistaken. The numbers in Africa are grossly inflated--you can read this (taken from ROLLING STONE, so I'm fairly certain they don't have a conservative slant to the issue):
http://www.aliveandwell.org/index.php?page=rollingstone
As for the interpretation of the CDC numbers read this and tell me if there isn't something wrong with them (remember, this guy is merely INTERPRETING the data--data which you can look up and verify to make sure he isn't skewing it):
http://www.fumento.com/comment.html