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minus-squareozymandias117@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·1 year agoMaybe? Cars in the US kill like 40,000 people a year; mosquitoes kill like 725,000 people a year
minus-squareRobmart@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-21 year agoYeah but 1.35 million die globally from car crashes, far more than mosquitoes kill.
minus-squareozymandias117@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoInteresting. That was more than I expected when looking at like China/India/US That looks like the official number, though. I thought mosquito deaths were being underestimated
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoWell we have gotten the number down significantly over the last century or so
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoYeah, but mosquitoes have a much bigger head start, and we’ve significantly reduced mosquito related deaths in the last century. Over the last 250,000 years even cars don’t come close yet.
Maybe? Cars in the US kill like 40,000 people a year; mosquitoes kill like 725,000 people a year
Yeah but 1.35 million die globally from car crashes, far more than mosquitoes kill.
Interesting. That was more than I expected when looking at like China/India/US
That looks like the official number, though. I thought mosquito deaths were being underestimated
Well we have gotten the number down significantly over the last century or so
Yeah, but mosquitoes have a much bigger head start, and we’ve significantly reduced mosquito related deaths in the last century. Over the last 250,000 years even cars don’t come close yet.