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the devastating earthquake in nepal has wreaked havoc and destruction, killing many thousands. it s a tragedy that deserves the world s attention, but this week we wanted to alert you to some other mortal threats to humanity that gets far less attention than earthquakes but are just as important to keep in mind. for example, in 2013 more people were killed by drowning compared to natural disasters. road injuries killed more people than malaria. suicide killed almost twice as many people as breast cancer. and falls killed almost as many people as leukemia and prostate cancer combined. all of these surprising statistics come from one of the most ambitious scientific endeavors ever attempted. a project that s been compared to the human genome project. it s called the global burden of disease study, a gargantuan effort to track just about every death around the world involving more than 1,000 investigators