Albert-László Barabási | Viruses and Fads
When in 1997 we saw the first decline of AIDS deaths in the United States, we thought that the worst was over. We were wrong. Currently, every day 15,000 people are infected worldwide. The majority of them will die of the disease within a decade. If you are a fifteen-year-old in Botswana today, your risk of contracting and dying of AIDS during your lifetime is almost 90 percent