Freshwater Snail??? So that thought experiment is actually kind of real if you piss one off enough? Well...
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Wait until you hear about microbes. In the top 10 causes of death, microbes are involved in at least 4 different categories.
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’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.
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
Freshwater snails? My aquarium has a good number of those. Does that make me like the leader of The Hand or something?
There's definitely animals missing on here. Deer kill a fair number of people a year
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 liking to it. (I should add that I did not create above data graph so not sure how accurate it is)
No spiders? I know it's not a lot, but it has to be more than sharks, right?
Hey Guster, any word on a new album??
TIL there is a rock band with the same name as my Alias lol
If we’re counting diseases spread by mosquitoes are we also counting disease’s spread by humans in our column?