There are plenty of things that prove our mortality. Health care is advancing rapidly. Solutions are found everyday for medical mysteries. However, as it has been brought up several times before if you do not have the money for these advances they cannot get the treatments that they need. This is an increasing problem in the United States, but this problem is worse in third world countries. Third World countries do not have the resources to have remote clinics, and they also don't have the many means to reach the wide demographic.
People of third world countries also continue to suffer and die from diseases that Americans can get treated more easily. For example unclean water is a huge contributing factor to deaths in the undeveloped countries. 1.7 million people die every year from poor hygiene and dirty drinking water. Malaria kills 1.2 of people every year. This affects mostly children under five years of age. Poorly designed irrigation and water systems, inadequate housing, poor waste disposal and water storage, deforestation and loss of biodiversity, all may be contributing factors to the most common vector-borne diseases, including malaria, dengue and leishmaniasis. Another killer that is not uncommon to developing countries is unintentional poisonings. These include inappropriate exposures to unsafe chemicals. These chemicals can include unsafe pesticides and use of toxic chemicals. Tuberculosis is also a common killer in low income countries. In the United States there are many treatments to cure tuberculosis. In America people are able to survive. However in a nation that cannot afford various treatments to these illnesses, people die. Children are not vaccinated. Birth rates are lower than in developed countries. Vaccines are not available to many developing countries. This leaves availability to keep the door open to diseases that could be slightly eradicated. Diseases like Polio could be almost completely gone, but countries in Africa cannot afford the different vaccinations keep the diseases around. One solution that is occurring today, is doctors from the states go to Africa to help bring assistance to the poor, but it is not enough. A few doctors can only do so much. It would take hundreds of physicians but that does not solve everything. Africa would still have many impoverished countries.
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