hazardous Insects

Just when you belief you were safe in your own home, safe from maniacs on the street, safe from lost and roaming wild animals in your local town, a small unassuming insect bites you, and for the next few days, you are fighting for your life. A mosquito, right in the ease of your own home has brought this on you.

Mosquitoes are often overlooked as a danger to the human race, but these little creatures are responsible for one to two million deaths a year. Malaria, one of the deadly diseases this insect carries, affects 10% of the world's population, production it the prominent mosquito-born disease.

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Another overlooked insect is the fly. Houseflies carry thousands and thousands of pathogens and parasites that can be fatal to humans. The Tsetse fly is responsible for 250,000 to 300,000 deaths a year in Central Africa. This fly carries a confident sponge that causes "sleeping sickness." The sponge enters into the body of a host, affecting the nervous system where it can cause a deep coma and perhaps even death.

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Yet another perilous insect did not come from nature but rather was born out of a man's attempt to produce a better version of the bee. African honeybees, better known as the killer bees, were brought from Africa to Brazil in 1956 to breed a better honeybee. Unfortunately, that attempt failed and the bees finally escaped. They have killed 1000 people as they moved towards the northern part of Central America. These bees do not charge one by one. Instead, they charge their victims in swarms, thus delivering a very painful death.

Unlike the bees, however, a wasp can repeatedly sting its victim. These stings can be fatal, especially to those with an adverse reaction to the sting. They are also one of the prominent causes of death, especially while the summer season.

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