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packman

(16,296 posts)
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 10:56 AM Jul 2019

The Apex killer of Humans

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Mosquitoes are our apex predator, the deadliest hunter of human beings on the planet. A swarming army of 100 trillion or more mosquitoes patrol nearly every inch of the globe, killing about 700,000 people annually. Researchers suggest that mosquitoes may have killed nearly half of the 108 billion humans who have ever lived across our 200,000-year or more existence


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/opinion/sunday/mosquitoes-malaria-zika-history.html
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The Apex killer of Humans (Original Post) packman Jul 2019 OP
I take an anti malarial daily (okay 3-5 of 7 days), so I shall conquer them, hahahahaha! NightWatcher Jul 2019 #1
the rats were a mere public transit system for the fleas. rampartc Jul 2019 #2

NightWatcher

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1. I take an anti malarial daily (okay 3-5 of 7 days), so I shall conquer them, hahahahaha!
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 10:59 AM
Jul 2019

Unless the thing I'm taking the antimalarial for kills me first.

The rats almost wiped us out, now the mosquitoes have a chance.

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