GENEVA, May 13 (Lifesitenews.com) – The World Health Organization (WHO) announced Tuesday that AIDS reached the top of the list of deadly infectious diseases last year. (Among non-infectious diseases the numbers of deaths remained significantly higher.)
1998 DISEASES
DEATHS IN MILLIONS
Heart Disease 7.38
Stroke 5.1
Acute Respiratory Failure 3.45
AIDS 2.28
Of note, 2 million of the AIDS deaths occurred in Africa. Also, as LifeSite reported last week, Health Canada’s Laboratory Centre for Disease Control released statistics this month noting that men who have sex with men (MSM) comprise over 75% of the AIDS cases in Canada last year.
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