Additionally, this is counting the diseases mosquitos spread so what about the diseases humans spread regularly? Not counting pandemics or if they count, average them out across the same time span these averages are taken from.

Fun thing about Chagas, the disease Assassin bugs transmit to gain their bodycount. Trypanosoma cruzi (the protozoa that cause the disease) has developed a nasty little trick where it’ll offload snippets of its DNA into the host organism. This will usually cause a auto-immune disease, both weakening the host and diverting some of the efforts of the immune system.

The interesting thing about this is one of the cells it can offload the DNA into are sex cells which means it becomes a heritable trait and becomes a part of the host genome. So there are naturally GMO humans out there with chunks of protozoa DNA in them… usually to their sorrow since the DNA is geared for causing auto-immune disorders.

Edit: Fixed typo.

apparently they use scopes so they don’t miss like noobs

> Is named “assassin bug”

> Doesn’t even make it to the top 3 in the lethality list

Assassin bugs only kill for money. Mosquitos do it because they’re out for blood.

Technically, that should be clear, as suicide, by definition, is committed by the victim themself and not by an ‘other human’.

Don’t forget all the accidents that leave people with life-changing brain injuries too. There are a lot of them.

And the other part is by “rapidly being accelerated from state at rest”.

They transmit T cruzi (Chagas’ disease), which can cause heart failure