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What is the chance of me getting killed by a mosquito?
I heard they kill 1 million people a year because Mosquitos carry diseases from other peoples blood. What is the chance of me getting killed by a mosquito?
12 Answers
- BillLv 75 years agoFavorite Answer
If that's one million people a year worldwide, and there are over 6 billion people on earth, the chances are pretty low. Of course, depending on where you live, you may be much more or much less likely to catch a fatal disease from a mosquito.
- 5 years ago
It mainly depends on the sex of the person. The guys chances are very slim though there is a cure for most mosquito diseases that are infectious, but if the man left the disease untreated, death or damage to body is expected. But some things like the Zika virus don't effect men. For the woman the chances are higher with the introduction of the Zika virus. This disease acts like the flu but then causes birth defects for the woman that are pregnant, mosquito bites on the woman are also infectious when the bump comes out of the skin and appears to be itchy, this happens because the masquito does a so called trade with your body, poison in the mosquito, for your blood, so leave your white blood cells to kill that mosquito bite instead of itching, the mosquito bite poison can also still be carrying a disease on the top layer of the skin, so when you itch, you are more vanurable to the disease. Bug spray is definitely a thing to buy and put on if you are worried about these things.
- Bob BLv 75 years ago
Generally low, although it obviously depends a lot on where you live.
It's mainly in the tropics that you need to worry about mosquito-borne diseases. This is partly because in these countries, the more dangerous mosquito-borne diseases are most common, and also because healthcare facilities and medicines in that part of the word are for the most part not of a very high standard.
The really big killer is malaria, which kills a lot of people each year. Outside the tropics, though, mosquitos don't really carry it, and if you are treated for malaria with modern medicine your chances of being cured are pretty good; it's the people who don't have access to good-quality healthcare that do badly. There are other mosquito-borne diseases as well, but most are not as common and are also confined to the tropics.
Basically, unless you plan on spending years in a tropical country without access to healthcare, I wouldn't panic.
- EdnaLv 75 years ago
The chances are higher that you could die from being hit by a bolt of lightening, than they are that you could be killed by a mosquito bite.
It would have to depend upon where you live, what type of mosquito bit you (and there are MANY different types of mosquitoes), and what kind of disease was in the blood of the person whom the mosquito had previously bitten before it bit you.
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- Anonymous5 years ago
Your chances of you getting killed by a mosquito are very slim. You might just get a small itchy bump that is all. I would recommend wearing bug spray so that way you don't get killed by a mosquito and so you don't get all itchy afterwards.
- 5 years ago
Really, I wouldn t worry about it and live your life. If u really want to be extra cautious, I would just recommend bug spray. Your chances of being bit by a disease carrying mosquito are very slim.
- MarkLv 75 years ago
From a mosquito, about 0.00000-something. It is from the disease they carry, not the mosquito itself.
- 5 years ago
its called malaria and is not based on the other persons blood. a female mosquito causes the virus and yes it is lethal. it has a higher death toll than any other disease in the world.
- Anonymous5 years ago
Low