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It's from here:
This quote is attributed to Nobel laureate Baruch Blumberg. In a late 80s PBS documentary, he said half of all human deaths 'may' have been due to malaria.

While it sounds astounding, it's plausible when you think about it. 93% of all humans ever born are dead. But it's a highly speculative business starting from how many people have ever lived.

Prof Carl Haub has come up with an estimate of 108 billion people since 50,000 BC. And only 6.5% of these are alive today. How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?

So did malaria cause the death of roughly 54 billion people? We can speculate. More than 96 billion of these 108 billion lived between 8000 BC and 1900 AD. For malaria to have caused the death of 54 billion people, it should have kept up a phenomenal rate of 5.4 million deaths per year in the last 10,000 years.

WHO estimates of 650,000 deaths per year now seem wildly off the mark. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded a study to find out how many deaths occur due to malaria in today's day and age. The number was 1.24 million in 2010! http://www.bbc.com/news/health-1...

So it's certainly plausible that malaria could have killed five times as many in an age pre-dating modern medicine when most of the world lived as communes along with their cattle and herds.

Also, the longevity of the parasite plasmodium, which causes malaria. Studies have revealed that it's been around since the time of the dinosaurs. And certainly been around from the beginning of our story. http://www.malaria.com/questions...

Entirely plausible!

https://www.quora.com/The-Human-Race-and-Condition-Is-it-true-that-mosquitoes-have-killed-more-than-half-of-all-the-people-who-have-ever-lived

bcglorf, you can quibble all you like. What's more telling is your deafening silence on the precious irony in having the JDL decry an outspoken member of British Parliament, on the specious charge of supporting terrorists.

Here is Meir Weinstein, who also goes by Meir Halevi, [commenting on the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre committed by party member Baruch Goldstein in Hebron,] saying "[o]ur organization does not condemn the attack. It condemns the Israeli government for not providing adequate protection for settlers."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Weinstein

So the very individual in this video who is brazenly condemning Galloway for supporting terrorism, for supplying humanitarian aid to Gazans, is himself unable to condemn the terrorism committed in the name of his own organization.

There is no way to render aid to the Palestinians in Gaza but through their elected government of Hamas.

It's so ironic that the JDL is here condemning Member of British Parliament George Galloway for delivering humanitarian aid to suffering Palestinians in Gaza, when the JDL was founded by Meir Kahane, who also founded a political party, Kach, that was eventually banned from the Knesset for being a racist party.

Remember it was Baruch Goldstein, JDL member, who perpetrated the Cave of the Patriarchs Massacre at Hebron in 1994, where 179 people were gunned down, 29 of them fatally.