Prabhat Jha, M.D. is an epidemiology professor at Dalla Lana School of Public Health, U of Toronto. He has been studying the causes of death in India and Africa and notes that the Covid pandemic is far weaker in Africa than the Delta version was in India. WE discuss the changing trends in smoking, breast cancer survival, and suicide. The study in India reveals surprising numbers of death from snakebite, and there are solutions available for that -- maintaining local supplies of antivenin. He finds that lactovegetarians are more susceptible to death from cardiac disease in India. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-505-deaths-around-the-world .