5 CREATURES WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF HUMAN DEATHS

 If you are thinking Lions and Cheetahs and all those huge and scary looking animals, then I am here to disappoint you. Here’s a list of five animals that actually took the highest number of human lives in the world.

●SNAILS

Yes, really. They are just slow and harmless creatures that always mind their businesses and look for nobody’s trouble right? Wrong! As of 2018, Snails hold the annual records of 20,000 deaths. Freshwater snails carry a parasitic worm that infects people with a disease called Schistosomiasis. In Nigeria, there are more than 100,000 cases of this disease per year and it can be spread through contaminated food or water.

●DOGS

You must have had of Rabies which is the name of the disease spread by infected dogs. According to the World Health Organization, about 35,000 deaths are caused by rabies and 99% of that number comes from the rabies from dogs. There are however vaccines that can prevent the virus.

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●SNAKES

Okay, these ones are more predictable. Snakes have caused a total of about 100,000 deaths in the past year. The troubling news is that there is a report of the shortening or reduction in the availability of anti-venoms needed to kill the poisons inflicted by some snakes.

●HUMANS

In 2018, in England, the number of homicide cases has reached its highest point in a decade. The annual number of human deaths by humans is about 437,000, making humans the 2nd most deadly creatures to themselves.

●MOSQUITOES

You have often heard the saying small but mighty, this is a perfect example. Those little insects you ignore all the time and even harbor in your homes have caused the largest number of deaths in the past year. Malaria is treatable, but should not be underestimated. As of 2018, mosquitoes caused about 750,000 deaths, leading the rest of the creatures notably and retaining its place as the creature that caused the highest number of human deaths in 2018. It is not the mosquito itself that kills, but the virus which the Female Anopheles mosquito carries and this specie is all over the world except in Antarctica. Note that besides malaria, Mosquitoes also carry other transmittable diseases like the West Nile Virus and the Dengue fever, but it has the highest killing rates from Malaria.

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