17 animals who are killing us

The good news: in the "civilized" people almost won the outdoors and animals for him not pose any danger. The bad news: in developing countries with high population densities, where human settlements are adjacent to the jungles, swamps and savannas, the animals continue to kill people, and access to medicines, antidotes, and no antibiotics. Since most of the murders happening in the remote corners of the planet, the statistics more or less approximate, the exact figures are not and probably will not.

Sharks, especially the great white shark, one of the modern symbols of absolute fear, attacking people is relatively rare and killed about 10 people a year. Razor-sharp teeth, terrifying speed, great power, and anyway — the bottom line of the rating.

The most feared predator of temperate climate, the main enemy of all fairy tales of the peoples of Europe, the wolf eats no more than ten people a year (because he lives mainly in the reserves and avoids people).

In North India and in Pakistan, old and not very healthy tigers still come into the village and eat people. Tigers cannibals hunt, and this is great progress, I must say: in times of Kipling tigers killed thousands of people a year.

African lions continue to attack people in Kenya and Tanzania. Usually, lions live in prides and avoid people. But lonely and not very healthy animals can pose significant danger to humans.

The little creature filled with poison, stun. Burn jellyfish causing cramps and pain, and if it happens at depth, the victim could easily drown.

Elephants are big, strong, smart, and very vindictive animals that can kill someone in an instant. In India, moreover, that the hunt for elephants (small wild elephants elephants make a great work), so still and always occupy the land from the jungle, because arable land is never enough. As a result, there is a sluggish man-elephant war that mankind, of course, wins, but not without losses.

Buffalo weighs under a ton and running very quickly. In addition, buffaloes are well organized in case of danger be in the order of battle (weak and the young in the middle, strong males and females in a circular defense). And what they think the danger is known only to them.

Formally hippos are herbivores. In fact, it is one of the most dangerous animals in Africa. A huge weight, decent speed, terrible teeth and developed territorial instinct. Not need to contact the behemoths!

All types of crocodiles are very dangerous and the Nile, and those that live in the swamps of Louisiana, and the Amazon. The deadliest form of marine crocodiles living in the Northern coast of Australia and the southern coast of New Guinea. The exact number of victims is unknown, and whenever crocodiles decide to eat surfers, it gets in the papers, but when they eat the new Guinea fishermen, nobody notices. Favorite maneuver is to grasp the human jaws and dramatically roll, flushing the victim and breaking her back.

These creatures live in the digestive tract of humans and some animals. Under certain conditions, the flatworm larvae get into the lungs and starts the disease cysticercus, which, in turn, leads to a lethal outcome.

Another intestinal parasite larvae which can get in the lungs and in the brain and heart. In addition, roundworm happy to live in the blood vessels and feed on red blood cells, causing patients almost always develop anemia.

Strictly speaking, the killers are not the snail, and sistemos they spread. Parasitic flatworms flukes penetrate through the skin into the human body, fall in blood vessels and migrate to either the gastrointestinal tract or in the area of the bladder and genital organs. But carry the larvae of these worms that is freshwater snails. It turns out that these little ladies are killing far more people than lions, elephants, crocodiles and hippos together. About the sharks even say nothing.

These bugs living in the neighborhood with a man in the slums, carry Chagas disease is an infectious parasitic disease that is common in Latin America. In the early 21st century it was 11-18 million patients. While Chagas incurable, medicine can only control the disease and reduce symptoms. So statistics can be much darker.

Remember Jules Verne? Ordinary African fly carries sleeping sickness, human African trypanosomiasis. This is a very dangerous parasitic disease common in Equatorial Africa to treat which is incredibly difficult and expensive. However, there have been some successes: now the death rate from the disease is about 10 000 people, and in the early nineties, it was more than 30 000.

The statistics are inexorable: our closest and oldest friends is deadly for us. Dogs quite often attack their owners, can tear the child, and the stray dogs get in packs, needless to say. Still, the main danger is the rabies virus. If the time to take preventive measures (the notorious injections in the stomach immediately after the bite), people infected with rabies, will survive. If the disease begins to develop, the mortality rate is 100%. However, rabies is a disease of the third world: die, those who can't go to the doctor. In developed countries fighting the virus by total vaccination of dogs.

Kill venomous snakes in the world. Not all poisons have antidotes, and not all people have access to these antidotes: in some regions to the nearest clinic to go so far, that the poison in any case, you will be killed first.

The well-known bloodsuckers — the worst killer. Mosquitoes carry two diseases. First, malaria. Every year fixed 350-500 million cases of malaria, and death ends of at least a million of them. The second disease — Dengue fever, with a very high mortality rate (and so awful, in severe hemorrhagic form, without medical intervention).

There is another view, which is not included in our ranking. People. We kill their own kind in an amount of about half a million people a year. In fact, losing only to mosquitoes. However, in the "good" of the decade, such as the late thirties — early forties, the account can go into the tens of millions. Even bloodsuckers can not cope.