Could it be sharks? Bees? About 53 people a year die from bee stings, worldwide. Deer-related car accidents? - 130. Some 500 are killed each year by elephants or hippos. Another 1,000 die from crocodile attacks.
Surely, not man's best friend! Dogs kill about 25,000 people a year. Snakes kill twice that many. But the No. 1 baddies of nature are mosquitoes - claiming an average of 1 million humans annually from their associated diseases.
So, respect the shark's instincts, but give them a break. They claim five to eight people a year. Consider this: mosquitoes can't help it. Bees don't kill on purpose.
Those who can "help it," ourselves. Fellow humans kill others by murder, car accidents and other ways at an average rate of 1.3 million annually.
You have a 1 in 63 chance of dying from the flu, but a 1 in 3.7 million chance of death from shark attack. Very few species of sharks actually eat marine mammals. In fact, sharks are a key indicator of ocean health (we add, they no doubt are more environmentally friendly than we are). Fear lightning.
Jimmy
Source: Shark Biology and Fisheries Science Lab at Texas A&M.
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