No I did not create this image
Wait until you hear about microbes. In the top 10 causes of death, microbes are involved in at least 4 different categories.
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Freshwater Snail??? So that thought experiment is actually kind of real if you piss one off enough? Well…
I think it’s parasites on the snail so perhaps a bit misleading
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Do you mean come snails? These are salt water snails.
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Decoy snail.
Anybody else flatly refusing to learn more about kissing bugs? That name combined with the death toll gives me thorough heebie-jeebies.
They’re just a small biting bug, that looks sort of like a brown stink bug. They’re called a kissing bug because they tend to target the lips and face, as they’re active at night and that’s typically what’s exposed when people are sleeping.
The bites themselves are relatively harmless unless you’re allergic to them. Most people would chalk them up to a popped zit or cold sore. Most people don’t even notice the bites when they happen, and will sleep right through them.
The problem is that they can transmit Chagas’ disease via their poop. Chagas’ disease presents with mild cold-like symptoms for most people, but can lead to heart failure in some… Which is probably the reason for the deaths being attributed to the bug.
They land on your face while you sleep, sting your lip, shit in your mouth.
And then you die of heart failure.Yeah, that’s pretty much the pharaonic curse type horror I was expecting
They’re called a kissing bug because they tend to target the lips and face, as they’re active at night and that’s typically what’s exposed when people are sleeping.
This is the second-worst news you could have given me on this subject, the first-worst being “and they’re in your pillows right now.”
I hoped to get some “fuck yeah, let’s never learn about those bastards TOGETHER!” in response but feared I would get informative replies like yours. I pine for my ignorance.
Yeah, you don’t want to know more 😐.
Just looked them up and they look familiar to me and apparently live where I live. They live in most of the US
They live in most of the US
THIS IS PRECISELY WHAT I DIDN’T WANT TO KNOW 😂
dammit
The carnivorous relatives do, not the bloodsucking ‘kissers’.
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Chagas disease sounds really awful: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagas_disease
We can beat mosquitoes if we just try harder
CRISPR has entered the chat
Another proof that dogs are better than cats.
Hey Guster, any word on a new album??
TIL there is a rock band with the same name as my Alias lol
I call shenanigans, no COWS:
“In the United States, the CDC estimates that about twenty-two people are killed by cows each year, and of those cow attacks, seventy-five percent were known to be deliberate attacks. One third of the killings were committed by cows that had previously displayed aggressive behavior.”
https://gizmodo.com/cows-are-deadlier-than-you-ever-knew-1690950434
I grew up in Appalachia and lived in the Caribbean for a while. My friends thought it was funny when I told them I was more afraid of the cows on the island than sharks. Cows will fucking kill you lol
Where is the source though? They refer something without linking to it. (I should add that I did not create above data graph so not sure how accurate it is)
Oh, I know, I’m just joshing you lol. I noticed there’s no sources referenced, but cursory Google research looks like the numbers are relatively accurate. I assume whoever compiled didn’t think to look into cows because people don’t think of cows as being deadly.
And I guess it also depends on the mechanism of death that we’re including in our analysis. Because they include insects that don’t kill directly, but not deer that also don’t kill directly, but rival hippos in the number of deaths they cause each year: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer%E2%80%93vehicle_collisions
I feel like the results ought to be normalized per Capita. How many mosquitoes are there? Do we beat them in per Capita murder?
No bears?
According to this there is 40 attacks per year worldwide but unclear how many resulted in fatalities
Beats?
Surprisingly, apparently bears don’t kill that often: https://worldanimalfoundation.org/advocate/bear-attacks-statistics/#:~:text=bear%20attack%20statistics.-,There%20Are%2040%20Bear%20Attacks%20on%20Humans%20Worldwide%20Every,(Nature)
Alright, time to domesticate bears. Would love to take one on a walk.
There’s definitely animals missing on here. Deer kill a fair number of people a year
Freshwater snails? My aquarium has a good number of those. Does that make me like the leader of The Hand or something?
Time to take back the top! We are number 1 in everything!
No spiders? I know it’s not a lot, but it has to be more than sharks, right?
I’m still mad at Steven Spielberg for making us afraid of sharks. They’re amazing creatures! I’ve been swimming with sharks in the ocean since I was 8, and I still love seeing them in the wild.
