Sorry, I sent the message below by mistake. I finally got my voice
recognition software to run my email program, dictated the phrase as a
test, but forgot to delete it when I later told it to send my messages.
Bill
>What is the source? Who is Don, MD?
>
>Mine
>
>---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 11:48:06
>-0700 From: Bill Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To:
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>[PEN-L:19367] Re: stats
>
>if I thought that what you wrote was correct, I would have to kill myself.
>
>Bill
>
>At 05:08 PM 19/05/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >Statistics
> >
> >v Number of people in the world, (pop. 5.5 billion) that live in abject
> >poverty: 1.4 billion
> >
> >v Number of people currently expected to die from starvation: 900 million
> >
> >v Percentage of those that live in the undeveloped
> >
> >nations: 97
> >
> >v Number of children in world dying each year from controllable illness:
> >12 million
> >
> >v Number of people in world that died each of the five years of World War
> >II: 10 million
> >
> >v Number of people in world that die each year of preventable social
> >causes: 10 million
> >
> >v Cost of one new Osprey aircraft (50 planned):
> >
> >$84 million
> >
> >v Annual cost of treatment to eliminate world's malaria cases: $84 million
> >
> >v Money set aside annually for malaria control by organized world health:
> >$9 million
> >
> >v Money set aside for Viagra pills per annum by organized world health:
> >$40 million
> >
> >v Number of children in world blinded yearly from lack of Vitamin A: 500
> >million
> >
> >v Number of women who died during childbirth last year in world: 650,000
> >
> >v U.N. estimate of yearly expenditure on war: $800 billion
> >
> >v U.N. estimate of yearly expenditure on health services: $25 billion
> >
> >v Number of children in world that die by age 5 (yearly): 12 million
> >
> >v Percentage of those that succumb to routine preventable health causes: 90
> >
> >v Ratio of African-American to white new born deaths in U.S. last year: 2:1
> >
> >v Number of reported pediatric measles deaths in U.S. last year: 45
> >
> >v Amount of money not allocated by Congress for measles vaccines: $9 million
> >
> >v Average amount of 1999 year-end bonus paid to Oxford HMO execs: $6 million
> >
> >v Time it takes the Pentagon to spend annual federal allocation for
> >women's health: 15 minutes
> >
> >
> >- Figures compiled by Don Sloan, M.D.
