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Re: Yuri receives hypocrite of the week award (was Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy)



joan@med.unc.edu (Joan Shields) wrote for all to see:

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>Up to half a billion (500,000,000) people in Africa suffer at least one
>serious malarial episode each year.  In 1993 it was estimated by the World
>Bank that within two years, due to loss of productive adult workers,
>malaria cost African economies 1.8 billion dollars.  Mortality due to
>malaria in Africa was at an all time high in 1993 (The Economist, August
>21, 1993: 33-34, nad the American Association for the Advancement of
>Science (1991))

If you are in truth a graduate student in a scientific discipline, you
appear to be remarkably careless with your numbers.  Dividing 500
million cases with 1.8 billion dollars gives a cost per case of $3.60.
A remarkably low number for so serious a disease.

Also, your 500 million in Africa alnoe seems a little high.  Since the
African population in 1991 was 817 million, you are contending that
61% of the African population has malaria.  This may be the case
though, I do not know.

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Regards, Harold
----
"The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in
the effect was already in the cause."
	---Henri Bergson, Philosopher (1859 - 1941)





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