Every apparel company that did business in Bangladesh knew that factory conditions there were unsafe (and some had taken steps on their own to remedy problems), but it took the collapse of Rana Plaza, which killed approximately 1,100 workers in 2013, to spur the global garment industry to action.
The deadliest tornado in world history was the Daultipur-Salturia Tornado in Bangladesh on April 26 , 1989 which killed approximately 1,300 people.
Gates calls the recent Ebola epidemic, which killed approximately 11,000 people, a warning sign that the world isn't prepared to combat a deadly and fast-spreading disease like the Spanish flu.
In absolute and relative terms the 1545 epidemic was one of the worst demographic catastrophes in human history, approaching even the Black Death of bubonic plague, which killed approximately 25 million in western Europe from 1347 to 1351 or about 50% of the regional population.
While some are harmless free-living organisms, other members of this group infect a range of plants and animals, causing significant human disease in the form of African Sleeping Sickness (Trypanosoma brucei), Chagas disease (Trypanosoma cruzi), and leishmaniasis (Leishmania major), which kill approximately 400,000 people per year.
Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease which kills two million people every year and infects approximately over one-third of the world's population.
Since June's election stalemate, the government has reignited war with the outlawed PKK, wilfully abandoning fledgling peace talks under way since 2012 and the attempt to end a bloody conflict which has killed approximately 40,000 since it began in 1984.
Those missing include Austin Tice of Houston, who disappeared in August 2012 while covering the conflict, which has killed approximately 400,000 people.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), kills approximately one person every 25 seconds which means that 2 million people worldwide die of TB every year [ 1].
Tuberculosis (TB) resurged in the late 1980s and now kills approximately 3 million people a year.
