Sands kills as offhandedly as El Mariachi, even after his eyes are drilled out.
"Malaria kills as many as three million children a year in sub-Saharan Africa," the text begins.
Most children recover within a week or two, but the virus kills as many as 500 children every year.
Still, influenza kills as many as forty-five thousand Americans a year and the vaccine reduces deaths, illnesses, the use of antibiotics, and the number of hospital visits.
Still fewer have any idea that alcohol is a poison that kills, as well as causing chronic liver and other organ damage.
In this exhibition, they've included a poster advertising a techno night called Ecstasy Kills, as well as a large, patterned Z-shaped tunnel for visitors to crawl through, so that they might better imagine the pair's thinking process.
Gene drives could also be used to help wipe out schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease, carried by blood flukes, that affects hundreds of millions of people each year and kills as many as two hundred thousand.
So he was shocked to discover a few years ago that, while remaining H.I.V. negative, he had contracted hepatitis C, a viral liver disease that kills as many as 10,000 Americans a year.
But the ones who remain are resolute, braving rain and snow, as one did here today, wearing a sign that read, "Abortion Kills!" As a reporter approached, the lone protester walked away.
Despite progress in reducing infections and deaths over the past decade, malaria still kills as many as half a million people a year, most of whom are under the age of five.
