Which disease, or situation, has killed more people world wide?

[crazyincalifornia]

I already know the answer.
I will post it up later this week.
Thx!

All Cancers

Heart disease

Bubonic Plague of Middle ages

All wars added together

Mosquitoe borne diseases

Updates

+1 y

Mosquito borne diseases have killed more people than all the wars, cancers, and other illnesses added together.
Today, in 1914, a person dies from this approximately every 6 seconds (extrapolated).

[ThePragmaticRomantic]

Probably all wars. Purely because they also cause major loss of infrastructure, causing secondary deaths (for example Spanish Flu would probably have killed a lot fewer without the great war paving the way for it). Human conflict has also occured since long before humans lived long enough to die of heart disease or cancer.

[yaddayaddayadda02]

I chose E without googling it.

[aumshivashanti]

Damn. I picked heart disease before i read war, and I didn't think on a global scale, so im sure i got the answer wrong. I do know that heart diease is the number one killer of Americans

[AshleyMD]

When you post it later will it be on here or on a new post?

[crazyincalifornia]

Just up in update area.

[AshleyMD]

Yay, I voted correctly. Thanks.

[Hans222]

I think, at any given moment, C.
But cancer and heart desease will have been around a lot longer whereas the plague disappeared thanks to hygiene and later also vaccination.
Hopefully, when you ask the question again in 5 years, Ebola will not be in the list :-)

[crazyincalifornia]

Thank you for saying that. Thank you for thinking about that.
Also thank you for caring about world health instead of another stupid question about sex.
:))

[Hans222]

You're welcome... and if you dislike sex questions have a walk through my questions... you won't find a single sex question, promised!
I also find there are too many of them, and also people explaining their relationship trouble with a 25 lines long, 1 paragraph (somethimes almost 1 sentence) story :-(

[crazyincalifornia]

Too much of anything is an eventual literary loss.
I can only read about something for so long before the yawning starts.

[Hans222]

Agree. That's why my golden rule is: when asking a question I keep the details limited to 5 lines if possible, 8 lines max and if possible divided into paragraphs.
That invites people to read it, not to close it :-)

[Insaan]

I wish you would have added brainwashed sick people that indulge in terrorism and kill dozens at a time.

[crazyincalifornia]

Yeah, sorry about that. Sad as it is.
thx! :((

[meatballs21]

Today, in 1914?

I don't know about you guys but I'm signing up to go fight in France. It'll all be over by Christmas.

[crazyincalifornia]

Yeah 2014 fits better. doesn't change the numbers though.

[mrwunderful]

I would say small pox... almost wiped all native americans out...

[crazyincalifornia]

Not even close.

[KhrushBrownies]

Actually the leader in killer disease in modern age like today is cardiovascular disease AKA heart disease which happens to include heart attack so I chose B.

[ButtHearth]

I voted B after thinking about it for a while. 1 in 3 deaths in America are from heart disease.

[crazyincalifornia]

Yeah this is a sleeper.
I found this while surfing around a bit for Ebola.
Since this is still happening today, after centuries, if the entire world died of a disease it would not come close to the mosquito deaths.

[summiter]

Bubonic plague or Maleria

[Shut_Up_And_Marry_Me]

God's will.
drop mic.

[Anonymous]

Damn Mosquitoes...

[crazyincalifornia]

You nailed it!