Our body is Murphy’s Law in action: if anything can go wrong, it will.
Five diseases - heart disease (29%), cancers (22.9%), stroke (6.8%), chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (5.1%), and diabetes (3%) - claimed 1.6 million lives or more than two-thirds of all deaths in the United States. Not far behind are flu/pneumonia, Alzheimer disease and kidney disease.
The eight common cancers include lung cancer, colon cancer, and prostate cancer for men, breast cancer, ovarian cancer and uterine cancer for women, melanoma, and leukemia. Diseases do not know when to stop. There are sexually-transmitted disease, cardio-vascular diseases, diseases from animals (such as foot and mouth diseases, bird flu, SARs) or plants or bacteria, food borne illnesses, infectious diseases, genetic diseases, allergic diseases, diseases for every body part, and travel diseases including cholera, diarrhea, hepatitis, mosquito bites, meningitis, tetanus, typhoid fever, yellow fever (“Ten Most Common Travel Diseases” http://www.forbes.com/2003/10/02/cx_cv_1002feat.html)