• ozymandias117@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Maybe? Cars in the US kill like 40,000 people a year; mosquitoes kill like 725,000 people a year

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      1 year ago

      Yeah but 1.35 million die globally from car crashes, far more than mosquitoes kill.

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        1 year ago

        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

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        1 year ago

        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.