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Pentagon | 18:12 Wed 06th Jul 2005 | History
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What has caused the deaths of approximately half the human beings who have ever lived? Not including "old age "!
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Avatar Image twiglet4frog
malaria?
18:15 Wed 06th Jul 2005
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bubonic plague I think
19:01 Wed 06th Jul 2005
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Just as an interesting snippet I saw an article some time ago which said that half the people that have ever lived are alive today
19:05 Wed 06th Jul 2005
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Quite right twiglet4frog, malaria it is.
20:02 Wed 06th Jul 2005
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why thank u kind jane. i knew i had my uses!!!
20:09 Wed 06th Jul 2005
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so don 1, has there only ever been approx 12 billion people on this planet? as there is 6 billion now give or take a smudger or MargeB
20:10 Wed 06th Jul 2005
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Living in Midsomer ?
20:51 Wed 06th Jul 2005
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Peri - maybe they also knew Jessica Fletcher? lol
21:02 Wed 06th Jul 2005
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i thought that there were more people alive today than have ever lived
21:40 Wed 06th Jul 2005
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I cant remember the site twiglet4frog but google World population statistics and have a look round you will be surprised.

It has been estimated that 12000 years ago the world population was just 19 thousand.
22:01 Wed 06th Jul 2005
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The guesstimate in 2002 was that, of all the people who have ever lived, about 5.8% were alive at that time.

http://www.prb.org/Template.cfm?Section=PRB&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=7421

22:15 Wed 06th Jul 2005
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snopes also debunks the idea about more-people-alive-today.

Some sources say TB is the biggest killer. Could be: people who 'die' of Aids often actually die of TB, for instance; the Aids just weakens their resistance and opportunistic infections - TB is the likeliest - bring death. But I wonder how anyone knows what people died of in the past?

23:42 Wed 06th Jul 2005
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Lack of Breath in 100%! LOL
00:38 Thu 07th Jul 2005
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War and famine?
07:36 Thu 07th Jul 2005
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Always thought it was the result of drinking contaminated water - i.e. cholera, typhoid, gastro-enteritis, etc.
11:04 Thu 07th Jul 2005
Avatar Image Dom Tuk
Old age is still the greatest cause of death in us humans
18:02 Thu 07th Jul 2005
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George Bush?
10:05 Fri 08th Jul 2005
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usa friendly fire says it all
01:02 Sat 09th Jul 2005
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It is a romantic notion but no one actually dies of old age, there is always a disease process.  The most common cause noted on death certificates in this country is pneumonia.
12:59 Sat 09th Jul 2005
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depressedmgl, there are MANY death certificates issued with old age as the cause. Ask any coroner
22:36 Sat 09th Jul 2005

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