Title really, is it just that our diet is better and decent food is much more abundant or is it just general hygiene?
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It’s still an absolutely massive deal. It’s one of the leading causes of death worldwide, especially among children.
Diarrhea kills almost 3,00 children a day. [https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/pdf/global/programs/globaldiarrhea508c.pdf](https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/pdf/global/programs/globaldiarrhea508c.pdf)
and over 1.6 million people each year. “This is more than all deaths from all ‘intentional injuries’ combined in the same year: almost 800,000 died from suicide, 405,000 from homicide, 130,000 in conflict, and 26,500 from terrorism – in total 1,355,000.”
It’s one of the leading causes of preventable death.
[https://ourworldindata.org/diarrheal-diseases](https://ourworldindata.org/diarrheal-diseases)
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