Nowadays people worries about swine flu or AIDS, but according to the latest statistics heart disease and cancer are far more dangerous. So we wear masks, avoid public gathering, eat honey and garlic, but who has ever make a heart ultrasonography? I think very few of us. The graphic above shows both major causes of death and external causes in the USA. For me the most striking thing is the number of people dying of dementia or other mental diseases. The infant mortality rate is low (7.07 per 1000) in comparison with the Angola (119) or even Russia (16.53) but in comparison with Singapore (1.9) or Iceland (2) it still needs to be improved. Other cases of deaths are going down. Only 1,970 people in 2010 died due to car accident (in Russia 26,567) But do not think that everything in the world is dangerous. Just enjoy life as long as it lasts!
It is demonstrative that only a small proportion of the population dies of accidents and other external factors. But we usually put more emphasis on various catastrophes, commuting accidents, employee injuries, plane crashes, railway disasters, fires, drownings and so on. Perhaps the reason for our close attention to these matters stems from the unnatural character of the fatal cases of this category. We are more shocked to hear that a person died in a car accident than to realize that every day our neighbors die of cancer or heart attack.
