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The world's deadliest animal isn't a shark or even a human



It is very alarming at the rate which man has become the harbinger of death unto one another.
Presently, the mosquitoes have beaten us to clinch the record, we need to get it back then later look at how we can suppress mans inhumanity and brutality to one another. Mosquito seems to have evolved beyond the ordinary insects that can be neglected because it has always been a carrier of one disease or the other and the worst part of it is that it is adding more to its arsenal of destructive diseases geometrically. Read further :
 A 2014 graphic from Bill Gates' blog outlined the number of deaths per year related to animals. Scroll down and you'll see the biggest offender: mosquitoes.

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(GatesNotes.com)

Yes, mosquitoes — the pesky bugs that suck blood and transmit viruses from person to person — are responsible for the most animal-related deaths.
"When it comes to killing humans, no other animal even comes close," Gates noted on the blog.
Malaria by itself is responsible for more than half of mosquito-related deaths, predominantly in sub-Saharan Africa, though that incidence fell by 37% between 2000 and 2015, according to the World Health Organization. Dengue fever, another mosquito-borne disease, has become a leading-cause of hospitalization and death among children in some Asian and Latin-American countries.
And it's not just deaths that mosquitoes are responsible for. The recent spread of the Zika virus in the Americas by the mosquito has alerted the world to the impact the pest has. Once infected with Zika, only about 20% of people ever show symptoms, which most commonly include fever, rash, joint pain, and red eyes.
One reason why Zika is troubling is because it has been linked with birth defects in babies whose mothers have had Zika symptoms and a neurological condition called Guillain-Barré Syndrome.
While Aedes aegypti has been singled out as the carrier of Zika and dengue, other mosquitoes like those in the Anopheles group carry malaria.
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(Thomson Reuters) An Anopheles stephensi mosquito.
Apart from vaccines, mosquito eradication is one of the best ways to curb the spread of deadly infectious diseases. Then, perhaps, there could be a new deadliest animal.

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