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Originally Posted by tncinmd Well, yes, it does seem you are being picky. Hopefully you'll answer the question at some point.
The latest statistics (CDC 1999) I could find showed that across all ages, genders and races, influenza/pnuemonia (CDC lumps them together) came in at number 8 of the top ten causes of death. HIV doesn't make the top ten overall.
Now, admittedly, flu/pneumonia is a less significant factor in age groups 20-44 and doesn't make a really significant impact until 55+. HIV, however, plays a significant role starting about 25 and peaks in the 35-44 age group. Figures are somewhat different when broken down by race and gender.
Now, if the impact is far more significant than HIV for our age group (55+), it would seem we should be walking around wearing face masks and avoiding kissing, n'est-ce pas ? Obviously we don't. Again, the question is, is it the activity that results in exposure to the perceived risk rather than the risk itself ? |
CDC Data from 1999 to 2003 shows about an even distribution of
18,000 deaths per year in the USA from
AIDs.
CDC Data from 2003 March - July, shows a total number of probable
SARS cases at
398 for that time period in the USA. ---I didn't see the deaths posted but if it was a percentile of that 398 even if we extrapolated out for the remainder of the calendar year, it still would not come close to the 18,000 for AIDS deaths.