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  1. Reference

    https://businesstech.co.za/news/general/71652/the-biggest-killer-diseases-in-history/

    [The idea that malaria could have been the cause of death for 50 billion people in human history derives from a statement from journalist Sonia Shah, whose book, “The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years” explores the history of the disease.

    Taking the statement at face-value – and assuming the speculative figures from demographer Carl Haub that over 100 billion people have lived on earth are accurate – this would mean that malaria has killed more than 50 billion people.

    The figure is startling – but not completely implausible.

    Author of “Parasites: Tales of Humanity’s Most Unwelcome Guests”, Rosemary Drisdelle, crunched the numbers using both Haub’s numbers and Shah’s claim, noting that if most people died between 8000BC and 1650AD, this could account for 5.4 million deaths a year.

    Considering the lack of treatment that would have been available, and the fact that the disease has apparently been with humanity for 500,000 years, it’s not completely implausible.

    In 1999, the WHO reported that malaria could have claimed the lives of close to 200 million people in the 19th century alone – and the group’s contemporary death figures say as many as 1.2 million deaths a year are still being attributable to the disease.

    Taking this into account, it’s clear that malaria is the world’s biggest killer disease, having claimed billions of human lives.
    ]

    kinda supports joes statement although its pre 1900

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