How did diarrhea kill so many people before and now it’s not that big of a deal?

Question

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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Answer 1

Your premise is wrong, over a million children die a year of diarrheal diseases. https://ourworldindata.org/diarrheal-diseases#:~:text=In%202017%2C%20almost%201.6%20million,from%20terrorism%20%E2%80%93%20in%20total%201%2C355%2C000.