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Alcohol kills 3.3m people annually, WHO report

NAIROBI, KENYA: After an illicit brew killed more than 90 people and left 160 others hospitalised in five counties, a new World Health Organisation (WHO) report indicates that alcohol has overtaken the world’s leading killer diseases, killing 3.3 million people annually worldwide.

The UN health agency reports that a recent survey showed that alcohol kills more people than HIV/Aids, tuberculosis and violence combined.

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