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- [Briggs] Have you ever been at the zoo,
sitting there with a stupid look on your face,
staring at an animal wondering how many people
that type of thing kills each year?
I do.
What is going on everyone,
welcome back to "World According to Briggs."
Today we're looking at the deadliest animals on the planet.
Like I said in the last video about animals,
one of the most Googled searches when it comes to animals
is how many people are killed
by a certain animal species each year.
When we did the list for the United States
we learned people really don't get killed
by animals too often,
it's actually statistically kind of rare.
We also learned that people like to get technical and say,
"Humans kill the most people," over and over and over
in the comment section.
But they are correct, humans do kill more humans
and humans are technically animals.
But most people understand when a human says animal
they aren't referring to other humans.
This list is referring to animals that live
like in the great outdoors and zoos, in the ocean,
they don't have social security numbers or cell phones.
And we're gonna look at the whole globe
and see which animals on this spinning rock
kill most people each year.
All right, let's see what you should avoid.
Number 10, hippos.
Yes, that round tub of fat with those stubby little legs
actually are some of the most aggressive animals
on the planet.
They will not hesitate to charge a human
if they get too close.
And if you're thinking about running from them, good luck,
they can reach speeds of 30 miles per hour.
That's right, an angry hippo could get a speeding ticket
in a school zone here in the United States.
About 75% of the people killed by hippos
are in or very close to water.
So don't go swimming in Africa and you might be okay.
Hippos kill 500 people a year.
Number nine, crocodiles.
They are big, ugly and sneaky.
They kill humans and animals
by springing out of the water unannounced
like a wet jack-in-the-box with a bunch of teeth.
Crocodiles come in three different flavors,
you got the saltwater croc,
which can get as big as 2,000 pounds and about 17 feet long,
the American croc, which can get up to 1,100 pounds
and about 16 feet long,
the Nile croc can tip the scales at 1,700 pounds
and can get up to about 14 feet in length.
Crocs are opportunistic hunters.
If you're in their territory,
you are considered food to them.
Around 1,000 people are killed by crocs every single year.
Number eight, tapeworms.
Tapeworm infections, which are usually easily treated,
can occur when someone ingests food or water
contaminant with the parasite's eggs or larvae,
larva, larvae, whatever you wanna call it.
Adult tapeworms can measure
more than 80 feet long
and can survive as long as 30 years in the host,
according to the Mayo Clinic.
So these things get in your small intestines
and they sit there and they live a good life.
They eat some of what you're eating
and they just kinda live there.
Sometimes they come out when you go to the bathroom
and I'm sure that's a very traumatic bowel movement
when you see that floating in your toilet,
you just have questions.
How long have you been in there?
What is going on?
Is this an alien thing?
What happened inside my stomach
that made a worm come out of my butt?
Those are questions you'll have in your head
if you ever see that.
That's how they come out most of the time,
you poop it out.
But it is possible for someone to go years without symptoms
before the infection suddenly becomes very serious
and you die.
2,000 people are killed each year from tapeworms.
Number seven, Ascaris roundworms.
These things are gross,
they share a lot of the same ways you get it
and everything else like the tapeworms,
they get in your intestines.
But this isn't like one long tapeworm
you can get a whole bunch of these
and they can block one of your small intestines
as they grow.
And what's really disgusting,
when they find them in your intestines,
it looks a lot like chow mein from Panda Express.
Yeah, I'm not gonna be eating Panda Express for while,
love their food too, maybe I just won't get the chow mein.
But yeah, that's what it looks like
when it's in your intestines and it's kinda gross,
it's kinda extra gross.
But yeah, very much like the tapeworm
but they don't stay in your body for 30 years,
you usually find out within a year or two.
Ascaris roundworms kill 2,500 people every single year.
Number six, scorpions.
Everybody knows scorpions can do some damage,
there are almost 2,000 scorpion species,
but only about 40 have strong enough poison
to kill the average person.
It's usually those with compromised immune systems,
the elderly and children can actually be killed
by other ones, but there's only like 40
that'll kill just about anyone.
In the US we only have one
that is considered a deadly scorpion
and that is the Arizona bark scorpion.
Here it is right here.
And this is a yoga scorpion,
it is only deadly to people that are extremely out of shape
and attempt it.
I love the scorpion,
actually, my favorite Spider-Man villain is the Scorpion,
don't know why, he's always been
like a B level super villain, you know,
he's not that important, but I've always dug him,
I don't know why.
Scorpions, not the one that fights Spider-Man,
real scorpions, kill 3,250 people every single year.
Number five, freshwater snails.
Who saw this one coming? Not me.
Before you start having thoughts of bloodthirsty snails
seeking revenge for that escargot nonsense,
it's actually a parasite that lives on the snails
until you get in the water near them,
then they leave the snail and you're the new host.
You contact this from wading, swimming,
entering the water in any way.
The parasite will lead the snail
into the water and seek you out.
They can penetrate your skin,
work their way through your blood
and end up in your blood vessels
where they can live for many years, even decades.
It's not the actual worm type parasite, it's the eggs.
They have sharp barbs because they eventually
need to make it back out of the human body
and into the water some way or another.
So they connect to you and then eventually leave.
So those eggs can lodge in different tissues
and cause severe symptoms ranging from anemia, fatigue,
all the way up to various severe symptoms
like death, that's a symptom.
And about 10% of the people
get different chronic diseases from this.
The good news is you really don't find it too often
in North America.
It's really Asia, Africa and South America.
10,000 people a year die from this.
Symptoms include a rash, itchy skin, fever, chills,
cough, headache, belly pain, joint pain, and muscle aches.
About 10,000 people die a year from this.
It is possible to recover with medication
but you gotta know what's going on
and they gotta figure it out
before they give you the medication.
Number four, the assassin bug.
This is particularly a ugly little creature.
The assassin bug sits on your face drinking your blood
and it has no qualms about dropping a deuce on your face
or on your dinner table.
The bite itches, so you scratch it,
doing so you kinda brush some of the feces from the bug
into your mouth, eyes or any broken skin,
maybe that the bug created.
That's the bad news and the feces contains a parasite
that's going to screw your life up
by causing Chagas disease.
Chagas disease sometimes cause your heart
or intestines to swell.
Yeah, that's always pleasant.
Assassin bugs are widespread
through Central and South America
and are present in the southern United States,
maybe, you know, Florida, Georgia, stuff like that.
But they tend to affect mostly
those who can't afford screen doors.
Who thought a screen would save you from death?
Again, about 10,000 people die a year from this
and it's another one that is, you know,
there's possibility of surviving
if you get the right kind of medication
Number three, the tsetse fly.
When I was a teenager, my dad would tell people
that I had the sleeping sickness every summer
because I would sleep until noon.
I didn't know it was a real thing 'till much later in life.
It is a real thing.
The African sleeping sickness is caused by a parasite
carried by the tsetse fly.
The sickness includes fever, headache, joint pain, itching.
Later stages of the sickness include behavior change,
confusion and poor coordination and sleeping, I guess.
There is a treatment for the parasite,
but sadly most people that it affects are in rural areas
or live in serious poverty in Africa
and different places like that
where they don't have access to the medication
and the medical care they need,
so it can become chronic and kill you.
10,000 people a year die
from the tsetse fly's sleeping sickness.
Number two, snakes.
There are too many snakes in the world that'll kill you
to list in a 10 minute video, I'm not even joking.
Venomous snakes were in the United States
version of this video and here we are again.
We have our rattlesnakes, our cottonmouths
and our coral snakes just to name a few.
Down in Central America and South America,
they have some crazy snakes like the jumping viper,
the Bushmaster, eyelash pit viper,
tropical rattler, and the list goes on.
Asia has its own long list of slithering death.
Different flavors of cobra, the hook-nosed sea snake,
on and on and on.
There are way too many things to bite you and kill you
in the snake form.
Almost every place, but the Arctic and Ireland
have snakes that will kill you.
And sure, there's some other places,
but those are the two that come to mind.
50,000 people die a year from venomous snakes.
And before we get to number one,
don't forget, we got another channel called On this day,
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Also, I'll leave some links
to other videos that might interest you
that are similar to this one in the comment section below.
All right, on to number one.
And number one, mosquitoes.
There it is, mosquitoes, you were all right.
I'm not sure how many people left comments about this one
on the last video, but it was a bunch.
The United States, we do get some people dying
from mosquito bites, not really the bite,
but what the bite carries,
but nothing compared to the rest of the world.
I looked up the stats and there are different stats
on how many people die from mosquito.
This is in part because many that die
from the various diseases they carry
are so far out in the sticks,
sometimes their own country's government isn't really sure
where they are or how many people live there
or anything like that.
They're just so far out away from civilization
they're really not sure
and they're not getting medical attention.
So when people die, you just bury them.
You don't report it to the government,
sorta like West Virginia.
Mosquitoes are infected with malaria, dengue,
West Nile virus, yellow fever and Zika virus.
Making them the most deadly animal on earth.
In between 750,000 to one million people die
from mosquitoes every single year worldwide.
That's crazy.
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All right, that's today's video, hope you guys enjoyed it,
hope you got some information out of it.
Go out, have a great day and be nice to each other.
Don't get bit by mosquito.