An article by Bill Gates. What would you say is the most dangerous animal on Earth? Sharks? Snakes? Humans? Of course the answer depends on how you define dangerous. If you're judging by how many people are killed by an animal every year, then the answer isn't any of the above. It's mosquitoes. When it comes to killing humans, no other animal even comes close.
Mosquitoes carry devastating diseases. The worst is malaria, which kills more than 600,000 people every year; another 200 million cases incapacitate people for days at a time. It threatens half of the world's population and causes billions of dollars in lost productivity annually.
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The deadliest animal in the word is therefore actually EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus,who single-handedly outlawed almost all use of DDT in 1972.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/15583-ddt-breeds-death
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