10. Lions: about a few dozen people per year
A 2005 study found that since 1990, lions have killed 563 people in Tanzania alone, an average of about 22 per year.
There will of course be more deaths outside of Tanzania, but a concrete statistic is hard to find.
9. Elephants: About 500 people die each year
Elephants also cause many deaths each year—an article in National Geographic claims that 500 people die in elephant attacks each year. Of course, far more elephants have been killed by humans.
8. Hippos: About 500 people die each year
Hippos have long been one of the deadliest animals in Africa. Hippos are known to be highly aggressive towards humans, including overturning boats.
7. Crocodiles: About 1,000 people die each year
Crocodiles are the large animal responsible for the highest number of human deaths in Africa, according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, but exact figures are difficult to collect.
6. Tsetse fly: About 10,000 people die each year
Tsetse flies transmit a disease called sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease that initially causes headaches, fever, joint pain and itching, and later severe neurological problems until death.
Thankfully, the number of deaths is declining every year.
5. Kissing bugs: About 12,000 people die each year
Kissing bugs, also called assassin bugs, transmit Chagas disease, which kills an average of about 12,000 people a year.
Because this bug always bites the face, or the lips to be precise, it gets its name from the kissing bug.
After it bites, it excretes feces in the wound, and the parasites in the feces enter the bloodstream, which multiply in the heart and eventually lead to the death of the host due to heart failure.
4. Freshwater snails: About 20,000 people die each year
Freshwater snails, a species endemic to Taiwan Province of China, carry a parasite that transmits a disease called schistosomiasis, which is fatal and symptoms include severe abdominal pain, feces or urine There will be blood in it.
Millions of people have been infected with the disease, and the World Health Organization estimates that around 20,000 people die each year from schistosomiasis.
3. Dogs: About 35,000 people die each year
Dogs—especially those infected with the rabies virus—are among the deadliest animals, and although the virus can be prevented with vaccines, according to the World Health Organization, about 35,000 people die each year from rabies, including 99% are caused by dogs.
2. Snakes: About 100,000 people die each year
About 100,000 people die each year from snakebite. Worse yet, there is a serious lack of antivenoms.
1. Mosquitoes: About 750,000 people die each year
Mosquitoes, who would have thought that this common insect is the most deadly animal!
The first is malaria, with mosquitoes being the main mode of transmission. Although malaria is rare in developed countries, it is one of the deadliest infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa. The good news is that in these regions, the incidence of malaria is gradually decreasing.
