The government is spending $1 billion on a new vaccine. Nearly 100,000
people have been infected worldwide - 37,000 of those in the use and
429 people worldwide have died from complications of the virus,
including 211 in this country.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/12/eveningnews/main5153635.shtml

OVER 4 MILLION die from starvation, and we are spending OVER a BILLION
Tax Dollars for what??? And those deaths are most likely linked to an
adverse reaction to some drug they are being treated with!

Every five seconds a child dies from starvation, I wonder how many
children we could have saved with that $1 BILLION dollars!

The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is
well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving- Since you've
entered this site at least 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4
million will die this year.

One in twelve people worldwide is malnourished, including 160 million
children under the age of 5. United Nations Food and Agriculture

The Indian subcontinent has nearly half the world's hungry people.
Africa and the rest of Asia together have approximately 40%, and the
remaining hungry people are found in Latin America and other parts of
the world. Hunger in Global Economy

Nearly one in four people, 1.3 billion - a majority of humanity - live
on less than $1 per day, while the world's 358 billionaires have
assets exceeding the combined annual incomes of countries with 45
percent of the world's people. UNICEF

3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day.

In 1994 the Urban Institute in Washington DC estimated that one out of
6 elderly people in the U.S. has an inadequate diet.

In the U.S. hunger and race are related. In 1991 46% of African-
American children were chronically hungry, and 40% of Latino children
were chronically hungry compared to 16% of white children.

The infant mortality rate is closely linked to inadequate nutrition
among pregnant women. The U.S. ranks 23rd among industrial nations in
infant mortality. African-American infants die at nearly twice the
rate of white infants.

One out of every eight children under the age of twelve in the U.S.
goes to bed hungry every night.