a minute agoThe world's deadliest insect: Killed 52 billion people so far
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)When you think of the deadliest animals in the world, you likely think of lions, tigers, bears, and similar beasts. But the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention claims that the animal that poses the greatest threat to human species has no connection with dangerous wild animals, mosquitoes kill more [...]
When you think of the deadliest animals in the world, you likely think of lions, tigers, bears, and similar beasts.
But the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention claims that the animal that poses the greatest threat to human species has no connection with dangerous wild animals, mosquitoes kill more people in the world than any other animal!
Although we don't consider them dangerous but only disturbing, the list of deadly diseases that can infect you with mosquitoes is quite long.
Some of the most well - known are malaria, the mourning virus, the dengo fever, the chicuongya, and the West Nile virus, which is transmitted by mosquito bites and kills millions each year.
In the past 200,000 years, some 108 billion people have lived on earth. Almost half or about 52 billion to be accurate, mosquitoes killed them,” said Timothee Vanguard, author of the book “mucking: The story of humanity's deadliest predator”.
