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The freshwater snails are hosts, much like mosquitos in this diagram. They host platyhelminthes. The ascaris and tapeworms are also helminths. As far as I know anyway. I can understand that they wanted to show animals in the diagram because you can actually avoid those but avoiding the snails won't actually help because the worms infect by being excreted by the snail and infecting another host(human or other), usually in water.
...and as always, once one of these incorrect charts appear, a reminder:
Its not the insect that kills. Its a virus, bacteria or parasite transfered by the insect that kills.
It says that in the small print. But mosquito sounds better than some difficult to pronounce Latin name.
The Rabbit lobby paid off the chartmakers to keep their names out. So people would let their guards down.
"Dogs are responsible for around 30,000 human deaths per year, with the vast majority of these deaths resulting from rabies that is transmitted from the dog."
I'm surprised snakes are so high on the list. I knew they were dangerous, but more in the same way that spiders and sharks are dangerous.
Congratulations! You have unlocked a new fear: Assassin bugs!!
I am now curious if this was scaled with the population number.
I'm sure it wasn't scaled or normalized at all. It's global annual deaths.
It would be interesting to see what percentage of annual premature deaths they account for in countries with any deaths.
Ie lions and hippos are presumably a much large percentage of annual premature deaths in countries where there are any lion and hippo deaths, whereas mosquito deaths happen in many more countries, and homicides in basically all countries.
I'm actually quite shocked by the number of lion and hippo deaths.
Well, fuck me, I am surrounded of mosquitoes, other humans and dogs where I live.
...At least there's no snakes, right..?