What are the deadliest animal species to mankind?

Every year thousands of people die in different countries and regions of the world due to injury or health complications resulting from an animal or insect attack.

Some of them have become the deadliest to both men and women due to their poison load and also due to their aggressiveness in the face of a possible encounter.

Here is a rundown of some of the more dangerous species.

The mosquito

These insects, in their different species, seem harmless but they provoke people around 750 thousand deaths a year because it is an extraordinary transmitter of diseases.

The most famous of them is the Aedes aegyptiand transmits dengue, zika and chikungunya.

The snakes

Although there are snakes that are not venomous and their bite causes nothing but severe pain in the area of ​​the body, others are and inoculate a deadly venom. In these cases, snakes cause 100,000 deaths a year.

Dogs

In the wild, without domestication, it is estimated that they cause about 35 thousand deaths of people every year. Primarily due to pack attacks and also due to carelessness by owners of very aggressive dog, or attack trained breeds, injuring other people.

The snails

Freshwater snails cause about 20,000 deaths. Most of them due to excessive intake which causes poisoning in humans. Even with contact with people they transmit their poison.

The tsetse fly

This insect is native to sub-Saharan Africa and causes about 10,000 deaths a year, over 95% of cases are caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, present in central and western Africa; between 1999 and 2015, the new cases registered decreased by 90%.

crocodiles

Crocodiles cause thousands of human deaths. The reptile often causes death after attacking the land it inhabits due to human encroachment.

African elephants

They appear calm and friendly, but usually weigh 6,000 kilos and can run at 40 kilometers per hour if disturbed. Being social animals and with enormous weight, their escapes are extremely risky and territorial. On one occasion elephants destroyed a village that had spread across their territory.

fat-tailed scorpion

It is one of the most dangerous animals in the world. One bite can kill a man in seven hours and a dog in just 7 minutes. Its venom is specially designed to kill and cause a lot of pain.

There are 1,500 species of which 25 can kill humans. In Mexico and the United States, more people die from scorpions than from snakes.