Cry REEEEEEEEEE and let slip the Frogs of war Q
https://web.archive.org/web/20050802152646/http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus04.pdf
death rates for 2004 can be found here for some nice comparisons
https://web.archive.org/web/20040715193955/http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr52/nvsr52_03.pdf
is there any specific range of dates we should look at Q?