"TIL in the 5th century BC, diabetes was first identified by a surgeon named Sushruta who pointed out that the urine of diabetics was sweet enough to attract ants and sticky to the touch. He noted that diabetes affected rich castes and was related to the excessive consumption of rice and sweets"
"relatively few" yeah sure 2.8M over 132M infected .. it's peanuts compared to 7b of people on earth but it could be much worse if we all acted like the USA ... 555k death and counting ...
0.017% of the _legal_ population.