Poison vs Fire/Burn
While searching for a particular publication for work today I stumbled across a journal published by the CDC entitled the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. After some quick poking around in the QuickStats section I discovered that accidental death by poisoning is up 52.3 percent while accidental death by fire/burn is down 7.7 percent. So my chances of accidentally burning myself to death is quite a bit lower than my chances of accidentally poisoning myself. Good to know. Something else I discovered—writing for the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report has got to be the most depressing jobs ever!
Comments
Accidental death by fire is good, but what about INTENTIONAL death by fire? What are the percentages on that? We need a link here so we can see this stuff.
Posted by: Five-K | July 11, 2006 11:00 PM
Check the Buddhist Monk websites, they'd be all over that.
Posted by: G | July 12, 2006 06:34 PM