What animal causes the most fatalities in the world each year?

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Answer 1

Mosquitos.

Answer 2

As several others have pointed out, mosquitoes are responsible for upwards of a million cases of malaria each year - making them the number one killer of humans in the animal kingdom (although the real culprit is the protozoan Plasmodium that the mosquito transmits to the humans through their bite). Combined with other mosquito borne diseases, such as yellow fever, dengue, and various forms of vial encephalitis (including West Nile), there's a lot of people who die every year from mosquito bites.

But if you are going by human fatalities caused by attacks from mammals, there's a critter that is way more dangerous than lions, crocodiles, or even hippos.

The domestic dog, often called 'man's best friend', actually causes more human fatalities than other mammal. This is mostly due to the high number of interactions with dogs that people have (a lot more people have dogs around than have hippos in their homes). Most of the people killed or injured by dogs are usually children.

It's estimated that in the US alone, someone seeks medical attention for a dog-bite related injury every 40 seconds.

Between 1979 and 1998, more than 300 Americans were killed by dogs, most of them children, and more than half by either Rottweillers or pit-bulls, usually unrestrained on their own property.

That's a lot more people than get ripped up by hippos.

Answer 3

If mosquito-borne diseases cause the most deaths, but the reason is that human beings in rich countries have banned poor countries from using DDT to kill the mosquitoes, does that count as the mosquitoes causing the fatalities or human beings causing them?

Answer 4

the only poisonous animals i understand of incorporate (a million) the "arrow-poison" frogs. The act of ingesting them could bring about the launch of venom from the glands on the lower back and subsequently poison the patron. (2) Puffer Fish as used for the widespread eastern Fugu dish. The venomous areas incorporate a deadly poison (tetrodotoxin) which, if no longer do away with only before being eaten, will immediately reason dying. of direction there are various venomous creatures such because of the fact the Black Widow spiders yet I they may be eaten without possibility in the event that they have been squashed first; the comparable is going for venomous centipedes, snakes etc.

Answer 5

It really depends on what the parameters of your question are.

If your talking about human fatalities, but not humans as animals then its mosquito's, about 700,000,000 per year are infected with diseases from mosquito's (albeit they don't all die). However mosquito's don't directly cause death.

If your talking human and animal fatalities then it is ants. Ants out number humans about 15,287,804 to 1 and continuously kill each other off.

If you ignore insects as animals but include humans as animals then humans cause the most fatalities of humans or humans and animals combined.

If you're wondering what animal not including insects or humans kills the most humans its hippos.

Answer 6

I always thought it was the deer, as it causes hundreds of fatal car accidents a year by running out in front of them.

Answer 7

The 'big four" in snake bite deaths are the Russel's viper, saw-scaled viper, Asian cobra, and sea kraits. Snakes kill about 125,000 people a year. The saw-scaled viper or Russel's viper or asian cobra killed the most people depending on who you talk to. Heard on Animal Planet the saw-scale viper kills 20,000 people a year, more than any other animal.

Answer 8

Humans.

Answer 9

Mosquitos - by a huge margin. Man is a mere beginner compared to these dudes.

Answer 10

The mosquito. Surprising isn't it? It causes malaria and various other diseases. Transmitting malaria alone causes between 1000000 and 1500000 deaths per year.