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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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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
kill /kɪl/ A1	verb - to cause the death of (a person, animal, or plant)
die /daɪ/ A1	verb - to stop living
world /wɜːrld/ A1	noun - the earth, together with all of its countries, peoples, and natural features
natural /ˈnætʃərəl/ B1	adjective - existing in or caused by nature; not made or caused by humankind.
disease /dɪˈziːz/ B1	noun - a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific signs or symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury
creature /ˈkriːtʃər/ B1	noun - an animal, especially a nonhuman one
mosquito /məˈskiːtoʊ/ B1	noun - a slender long-legged fly with aquatic larvae. The bite of the bloodsucking female can transmit a number of serious diseases including malaria and encephalitis.
death /deθ/ A2	noun - the action or fact of dying or being killed; the end of the life of a person or organism.
bite /baɪt/ A2	noun - an act of biting something, especially with the teeth verb - to use the teeth to cut into something
infect /ɪnˈfɛkt/ B2	verb - affect (a person, organism, etc.) with a disease-causing organism.
blood /blʌd/ A1	noun - the red liquid that circulates in the arteries and veins of humans and other vertebrate animals, carrying oxygen to and carbon dioxide from the tissues of the body
organ /ˈɔːrɡən/ B1	noun - a part of an organism that is typically self-contained and has a specific vital function, such as the heart or liver in humans.
aging /ˈeɪdʒɪŋ/ B2	noun - the process of growing old verb - grow old
immune /ɪˈmjuːn/ B2	adjective - resistant to a particular infection or toxin owing to the presence of specific antibodies or sensitized white blood cells.
treat /triːt/ A2	verb - behave towards (someone or something) in a specified way.