Re:Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)
by ravenstine on Friday May 29, 2020 @02:55PM
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Ah, I see.
It is probably fair to count TB deaths in the "human kills" category, but I think we usually make a differentiation between human to human disease and disease caused by contact with an animal. It's just the way we see ourselves as separate from the rest of the animal kingdom.
Although I get what you're saying, I don't think that human deaths caused by TB is necessarily what people are interested in when you aggregate all of the of humans at the hand of other humans, which may be why those deaths are omitted.
Re:Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)
by bryanrasmussen on Friday May 29, 2020 @02:52PM
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I think it's because the only really meaningful experience you have with a mosquito is when it kills you via malaria.
We get malaria from a parasite that is spread by mosquitoes.
We get tuberculosis from a bacteria that is spread by humans.
TB kills more than three times as many people every year as malaria. Why is malaria counted as a death caused by mosquitoes but TB isn't a death caused by humans? Either you count both or you count neither.