Has malaria killed more people than all wars?

Answer 1

I think disease has by far the highest death toll. The truth is, human beings are constantly being consumed by bacteria, as the body ages it loses its ability to replenish what bacteria consume. What causes you to get sick, regarding bacteria, is not so much their pressence there, but the fact that they eat your tissues and take a dump right there and then. Bacteria use the human body both as a pantry and a toilet, and bacterial feces, well different kinds produce different chemicals which affect the body in a different way. A doctor's job, is to find what chemicals will kill breeds of bacteria without harming the body. Medicine boils down to chemistry, chemistry that is, as to how it applies to the human body. Increasingly though, Physics is rapidly becoming more and more a part of medicine; in the future, Doctors will need a knowledge of physics, as well as chemistry, the old time doctors are rapidly going the way of the dodo. By "old time" I mean, doctors who only study chemistry and human Biology; in the future, doctors will study physics, specifically the body's bioelectrical system which is an understudied area of medicine, chemistry, in addition to human biology. Earning a medical degree, will be that much harder, but medicine will hopefully be that much better.

Answer 2

Definitely. malaria is the biggest killer of all. It is thought that of all human beings that have ever existed, about half have died from the disease.