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Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)

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Post by wutbrodo »

rrmm wrote: post #302
wutbrodo wrote: post #292

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The excess death rate (ex covid) is relative to previous annual rates. I don't think you can disambiguate between "deaths due to undiagnosed covid" and "deaths due to untreated illness due to avoiding hospitals"

You're right. But if the excess mirrors the diagnosed rate (rise and fall) one might reasonably infer that it is driven by covid. Compared to deaths resulting from/driven by people staying away from hospitals which would depend on when lockdowns were announced, when behaviors changed, etc. Although both mechanisms would bear some relation, it looked to me more like it was driven by spread of the infection rather than…

> But if the excess mirrors the diagnosed rate (rise and fall) one might reasonably infer that it is driven by covid. Compared to deaths resulting from/driven by people staying away from hospitals which would depend on when lockdowns were announced, when behaviors changed, etc.

Yea absolutely. I haven't seen yet seen any analysis that does this, but I'm sure one will come along soon

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Post by Synaesthesia »

tincholio wrote: post #349
cko wrote: post #343

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Not shots, but pre exposure prophylaxis of atovaquone/proguanil or mefloquine.

Malaria prophylaxis is pretty rough in and of itself, and it's not really recommended unless you're going to be in high-risk areas (source, tried to get it myself when going into Mozambique from South Africa, was told there that unless I was planning to stay "in the bush" for a few weeks, it was a bad idea)

South African here. Fact is most of our country is malaria free, the cities etc especially so. It’s only in the hottest, most humid part of the Bush that you will get the mosquitos, and then generally in summer.

When I travelled to Kenya last year my wife and I took malaria medication, we would do the same if going to a malaria area in SA in summer.

Re: Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)

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Post by Synaesthesia »

bsytko wrote: post #240
dean wrote: post #110

According to the book "The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator" by Timothy C. Winegard, the mosquito has killed an estimated 52 billion people from a total of 108 billion people that have ever lived. (Not sure how those numbers were determined.)

Curious as to why we haven't evolved tougher skin then. Mosquito resistant skin would appear to be a trait that would allow you to live longer.

In central Africa many people suffer from sickle cell anemia which grants immunity to malaria.

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Post by newyankee »

bradam wrote: post #231

One of my classmates came back from Africa to Europe this March without any symptoms. 10 days later she got high fever, dizziness, and unfortunately she could not even recognise her family. Everyone thought its COVID, and doctors recommended her to stay home to not spread the "virus". Unfortunately when she got the the hospital, the diagnostics was too late to and she died in malaria 1,5 days later. Please beware of…

How old ? Is there any correlation with age ? mortality rate i mean

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Post by sarabande »

xpe wrote: post #210
sarabande wrote: post #130

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Off topic, but how did you make that beautifully formatted table?

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html which has a link to: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

I should be more clear. I know how to add verbatim formatting.

I'd like to know if the OP manually aligned the columns in the table, if they used a program to do so, or something els.

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fein wrote: post #172
cryptoquick wrote: post #138

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Your pushback against the HN downvoter cowards, especially when you've questioned the status quo and planted a seed of dissent against the grain, is quite appreciated by this particular HN user. Honestly, I find the dialogue here toxic and coarse, and I'm sure I'm a part of that, too. Ideally I'd just delete my account, and never come back... But HN won't allow me to delete my account, so, in spite, I'll keep coming…

Years ago it wasn't like this, and I recall reading mostly hardcore tech nerdery on here. Now... I don't even know. HN and Reddit are pretty well useless, and the only thing that keeps me around Reddit are automotive and industrial/machining subs. Seems strange that it was only 8 years ago. Member when HN was overwhelmingly pro meritocracy? I member. I really miss reading King Terry's diatribes in showdead. You'd pro…

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Post by aaron695 »

morsch wrote: post #160
Koshkin wrote: post #18

To put this in a perspective, 1 Mosquito 1,000,000 2 Human 475,000 3 Snake 50,000 4 Dog 25,000 5 Tsetse Fly 10,000 6 Assassin Bug 10,000 7 Freshwater Snail 10,000 8 Ascaris Roundworm 2,500 9 Tapeworm 2,000 10 Crocodile 1,000 11 Hippopotamus 500 12 Elephant 100 13 Lion 100 14 Wolf 10 15 Shark 10 https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-animals-that-kill-mo...

0 Traffic 1,350,000 Sort of weird to limit the Human category to, apparently, conflict, war, murders, and acts of terrorism. Also, it's horrible that conflict, war, murders, and acts of terrorism are in the same ballpark as traffic deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r... (2016)

It's clearly from the result of attacks. Like Rabies.

Traffic is not an attack.

Cows or the sugar plant depending on who you believe if we are counting anything. We attack them and we die.

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Post by DanBC »

lenkite wrote: post #304
DanBC wrote: post #189

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CDC also said it shouldn't be used for covid unless it was in a hospital, as part of a clinical trial. They said this because it is dangerous. Currently CDC refers to NIH for advice about using Hydroxychloroquine: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/therapeutic-op... https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/whats-new/ > Chloroquine/Hydroxychloroquine: > The Panel recommends against using high-dose chl…

Considered safe here in India and being taken by millions of people. High dosages should be avoided by people with heart trouble/high blood pressure.

> Considered safe

No, it's considered safe compared to malaria.

> High dosages should be avoided by people with heart trouble/high blood pressure.

...because it's dangerous for those people.

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Post by seppin »

lopmotr wrote: post #330
teruakohatu wrote: post #270

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I used to belive that, but I have since come to believe that the explanatory variable in vicious dog attacks are the type of owners, and the breeders who supply those owners, not dog breed. If you banned pitbulls they would just switch to buying and abusing alsatians.

Why did you change your belief? I've heard both beliefs too but never seen evidence for the blame-the-owner one so I'm never sure. I hope your logic is not: "I can imagine how A might cause X, therefore I believe B cannot possibly cause X." Easy way for people too fool themselves into believing unsupported ideas.

There are a lot of bad pit bull owners that abuse their dogs and make them aggressive.

Pit bulls are stronger and more capable of injuring or killing a human than most other breeds.

Both can be true. But if you want the "bad owner" theory to explain why 80% of all fatalities are pit-related , you are essentially calling at 80% percent (or higher) of owners dangerously negligent.

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