Worldwide War Deaths Underestimated

Cemetery For the Black Tigers (Suicide Bombers) In Sri Lanka

From ABC News:

THURSDAY, June 19 (HealthDay News) -- Wars around the world have killed three times more people over the past half-century than previously estimated, a new study suggests.

The finding supports the notion of armed conflict as a "public health problem" whose instability leads not only to violent deaths, but to indirect deaths from infectious disease and other causes, experts add.

"War kills more people than we had previously thought," said lead researcher Ziad Obermeyer, a research scientist at Brigham & Women's Hospital, in Boston. "And that has to be taken into account when we're looking historically, and it's important for people and policy makers to know when they're looking at the consequences of the war. It's important that there's an awareness of how many people actually die."

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News On World Wide Deaths From Other Sources:
New Estimate Triples Number of War Deaths in Past 50 Years -- Voice Of America
Global War Deaths Have Been Substantially Underestimated, Study Shows -- Science Daily
War Deaths Grossly Underreported--Study -- Science Now
War survey points to millions more dead -- Nature News

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