Re:Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)
by slg on Friday May 29, 2020 @06:04PM
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Tuberculosis kills almost as many people as the rest of that list combined. It is spread from human to human. There is a vaccine that can help prevent it. If this list was intended to shine light on a fixable problem, TB seems like a much easier problem to solve than eradicating all mosquitoes.
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Re:Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)
by asdfasgasdgasdg on Sunday May 31, 2020 @12:34PM
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There's a vaccine that helps prevent it in children, although apparently it's not very effective for adolescents and adults: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4950406/