cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/25030964
Wanna know how the numbers change for “Other Humans” when deaths due to car collisions are included? It gets 1.35 million added to it, and those were 2016 numbers.
Automobile drivers are by far the most deadly animal, blowing mosquitoes completely out of the water!
Wow, I wish you hadn’t just told me about assassin bugs.
Fun thing about Chagas, the disease Assassin bugs transmit to gain their bodycount. Trypanosoma cruzi (the protozoa that cause the disease) has developed a nasty little trick where it’ll offload snippets of its DNA into the host organism. This will usually cause a auto-immune disease, both weakening the host and diverting some of the efforts of the immune system.
The interesting thing about this is one of the cells it can offload the DNA into are sex cells which means it becomes a heritable trait and becomes a part of the host genome. So there are naturally GMO humans out there with chunks of protozoa DNA in them… usually to their sorrow since the DNA is geared for causing auto-immune disorders.
Edit: Fixed typo.
It’s Chagas, not Chagras.
Thanks, fixed.
Assassin bugs give you aids, got it.
apparently they use scopes so they don’t miss like noobs
> Is named “assassin bug”
> Doesn’t even make it to the top 3 in the lethality list
assassin, not mass murderer. they kill with intent.