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This adorable video: Welcome to "What's Gonna Kill
Me," the game show where we ask our contestants,
"What's gonna kill you?" Not to freak you out or
anything, but the world is full of things that
can kill you, from natural disasters to illnesses
to wild animals. And I'm not talking about large
predators like lions and crocodiles, those only
kill a couple of hundred to a thousand people a
year. Those are rookie numbers. The world's
deadliest creature is much, much smaller.
Okay, guys, what's the world's deadliest
creature? Any guesses, anyone? Oh,
so close, Triangle Bob. We were looking for
"mosquito," not a giant logo sign. Sorry.
We'll talk more about the
world's deadliest killers
after a brief word from our intro.
Hey there, welcome to Life Noggin!
Mosquitoes are responsible for the death of over
1 million people each year, but it's not the bite
that kills them, it's the diseases they're
carrying. These include viruses like Dengue,
West Nile, and Zika, as well as parasites
like the one that causes malaria. In fact,
malaria is responsible for the majority
of mosquito-related deaths. The parasite
infects blood cells, which can result in
blood abnormalities or organ failure. And
while preventative measures like insecticides
and window screens have largely reduced the
number of cases, malaria killed
over 600,000 people just in 2020.
But there's other diseases with an even higher
death toll. In the past 200 years, tuberculosis
has killed over 1 billion people, making it the
deadliest infectious disease in history. Each
year, it's responsible for the death of about
1.6 million people. It's by no means gone;
scientists believe that a third of the world's
population are infected with a dormant form of
this bacteria, but it can be reactivated
and spread through coughing and sneezing,
and those with a weakened immune system are most
at risk. While it can be cured with antibiotics,
there have also been drug-resistant
tuberculosis cases documented all over
the world, making treatment
all the more complicated.
But that's still not the world's deadliest killer.
That award goes to an unavoidable process that all
living things experience: aging. About 100,000
people die from age-related causes every day.
That's because, as you age, your body goes through
lots of changes, like a decline in the function of
organs or the immune system. Eventually,
an organ fails or a disease is acquired,
and that results in death. Fighting age-related
diseases and aging in general is super important.
We need to be putting a few more resources
into treating that. For the top two deadliest
diseases in the world, heart disease and cancer,
aging is one of the most important risk factors.
This is due to your arteries becoming harder
and accumulating fatty deposits as you age,
and your cells developing more and more
genetic mutations over your lifetime.
Hey, we all have to die of something. At least it
won't be at the hands or the teeth of a lion. Oh,
good, Triangle Bob is okay. Nope, spoke too soon.
That lion has just attacked him. Whoops, sorry.
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