In the Early Twenty-First Century, Many People in the Less-Developed

In the early twenty-first century, many people in the less-developed world still died from malnutrition and infectious diseases, despite improvements in health care through the increased use of vaccines and Western medicine; in the West,

A) noncontagious illnesses such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, and depression were more lethal.
B) there was no malnutrition, and infectious diseases had been entirely eradicated.
C) despite propaganda attempts to claim otherwise, the health situation was similar to that of the developing world.
D) women were far more likely than men to die of malnutrition and infectious diseases.