<400 - The total world wide fatalities attributed to SARS (this week quarantine restrictions were placed on UK school children returning from Hong Kong)

>11,000 - The annual death toll due to firearms in the US alone (this week a law was enacted protecting the firearms industry from negligence claim lawsuits..the only industry to have such protection).

>1,000,000 - The annual world wide death toll due to malaria (in the week that scientists announced a breakthrough discovery that might counter the disease's ability to mutate immunity to drugs)