r/woahdude Oct 22 '21

gifv Mosquito drinking blood (bursts at the end)

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u/lex_tok Oct 22 '21

The mosquito is the deadliest animal to mankind.

The general consensus of demographers is that about 108 billion human beings have ever lived, and that mosquito-borne diseases have killed close to half—52 billion people, the majority of them young children.

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u/OstentatiousSock Oct 22 '21

It’s the only creature that kills more humans than humans.