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Does this take into account abortion? How about failed pregnancies not otherwise aborted?
Missing:
Freshwater snails (schistosomiasis) - 200,000 deaths per year
Tsetse flies - 10,000 deaths per year
Ascaris roundworms - 2,500 deaths per year
Tapeworms - 2,000 deaths per year
The freshwater snails are hosts, much like mosquitos in this diagram. They host platyhelminthes. The ascaris and tapeworms are also helminths. As far as I know anyway. I can understand that they wanted to show animals in the diagram because you can actually avoid those but avoiding the snails won’t actually help because the worms infect by being excreted by the snail and infecting another host(human or other), usually in water.
notice how bears are not among them
Also, notice how other humans are high up on the chart
Exactly. Bears are perfectly safe
…and as always, once one of these incorrect charts appear, a reminder:
Its not the insect that kills. Its a virus, bacteria or parasite transfered by the insect that kills.
And they couldn’t be bothered to get a picture of an assassin bug.
Anyone who tried just got assassinated. Assassin bugs have all kinds of organized crime connections.
This is a combination of vectors and physical attack. Humans committing homicide vs a mosquito carrying a disease.
There is a note saying that, it’s on the bottom left.
That said, it could and should have been more visible.
“Dogs are responsible for around 30,000 human deaths per year, with the vast majority of these deaths resulting from rabies that is transmitted from the dog.”
I always thought rabies was exceptionally rare, like just a handful of cases per year? Or is that just the US
That’s in countries with good vaccination programs for pets, good animal control, and the money to keep it going.
Poor countries have a big feral/stray dog problem and no money to try to vaccinate or spay/neuter-release the animals to try to deal with it.
Yes, rabies is very rare in the US, and the top exposures to rabies for this country are Bats, Raccoons, Skunks and Foxes. And of course: don’t mess with wild animals acting strangely, if you find a bat in your (or your kids) bedroom, follow your local health board requirements which may necessitate the capture of the bat and/or getting rabies vaccines.
What they fuck are assassin bugs? Should I be concerned? What do you have to do to be put on the hit list?
They are mainly in South America and some in Central America, I think. They carry a parasite that causes Chagas disease.
Wow, really happy I invested in that anti-lion treatment the traveling salesman offered! I haven’t seen a single one since!
I am now curious if this was scaled with the population number.
I’m sure it wasn’t scaled or normalized at all. It’s global annual deaths.
It would be interesting to see what percentage of annual premature deaths they account for in countries with any deaths.
Ie lions and hippos are presumably a much large percentage of annual premature deaths in countries where there are any lion and hippo deaths, whereas mosquito deaths happen in many more countries, and homicides in basically all countries.
I’m actually quite shocked by the number of lion and hippo deaths.
The Rabbit lobby paid off the chartmakers to keep their names out. So people would let their guards down.
They haven’t been that big of a deal ever since we invented the holy hand grenade.
Though holy hand grenades would be high on the list if they were an animal. But such is the price we pay to be safe from the mighty rabbit.
You should watch Night of the lepus
I’m surprised snakes are so high on the list. I knew they were dangerous, but more in the same way that spiders and sharks are dangerous.
Congratulations! You have unlocked a new fear: Assassin bugs!!
Well, fuck me, I am surrounded of mosquitoes, other humans and dogs where I live.
…At least there’s no snakes, right…?
