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  2. Why mosquitoes are considered the world's deadliest animal - AOL

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    A blog from philanthropist Bill Gates noted mosquitoes as the animal capable of taking the most lives, killing more people in one day than sharks do in a century.

  3. List of deadliest animals to humans - Wikipedia

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    Humans killed per year Animal Humans killed per year Animal Humans killed per year 1 Mosquitoes: 1,000,000 [a] Mosquitoes 750,000 Mosquitoes 725,000 2 Humans 475,000 Humans (homicide) 437,000 Snakes 50,000 3 Snakes: 50,000 Snakes 100,000 Dogs 25,000 4 Dogs: 25,000 [b] Dogs 35,000 Tsetse flies 10,000 5 Tsetse flies: 10,000 [c] Freshwater snails ...

  4. Local elimination of mosquitoes is possible. Here’s why we ...

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    The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has dubbed mosquitoes the world’s deadliest ... which transmit human pathogens, so if the disease-transmitting species were eliminated, non ...

  5. Why Mosquitoes Are So Dangerous Right Now - AOL

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    Mosquitoes belonging to the Aedes family cause most of the world’s malaria, dengue, yellow fever, West Nile, and Zika. They live primarily in urban, densely populated areas and can replicate in ...

  6. Mosquito - Wikipedia

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    Mosquitoes, the Culicidae, are a family of small flies consisting of 3,600 species. The word mosquito (formed by mosca and diminutive-ito) [2] is Spanish and Portuguese for little fly. [3] Mosquitoes have a slender segmented body, one pair of wings, three pairs of long hair-like legs, and specialized, highly elongated, piercing-sucking mouthparts.

  7. Mosquito control - Wikipedia

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    Mosquito control is a vital public-health practice throughout the world and especially in the tropics because mosquitoes spread many diseases, such as malaria and the Zika virus. Mosquito-control operations are targeted to multiple problems: Nuisance mosquitoes bother people around homes or in parks and recreational areas;

  8. Mosquito-borne disease - Wikipedia

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    That means about 100 mosquitoes could emerge from a 1-liter habitat per day while people there try to have their water in much larger volume there come at-home mosquito habitats, they don't emerge at once but gradually throughout the day. At best spraying will kill all live insects at the time, not the newly emerges.

  9. Clemson experts advise beekeepers, horse owners, as ... - AOL

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    In addition to their itchy bites, mosquitoes can carry diseases that harm humans and animals. Mosquitoes contract and carry certain diseases such as EEE, West Nile Virus (WNV), Zika virus and dengue .