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Wanna know how the numbers change for "Other Humans" when deaths due to car collisions are included? It gets 1.35 million added to it, and those were 2016 numbers.

Automobile drivers are by far the most deadly animal, blowing mosquitoes completely out of the water!

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[–] Terrapinjoe 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Aren't assassin bugs harmless? Why the body count at all?

[–] lefty7283 10 points 4 months ago

They transmit T cruzi (Chagas’ disease), which can cause heart failure