If you ever come across one of these animals, turn around immediately and walk the other way.
Cape Buffalo (200 deaths per year)
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Fattail Scorpion (400 deaths per year)
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Nile Crocodile (1,000 deaths per year)
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Tapeworm (2,000 deaths per year)
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Ascaris Roundworm (2,500 deaths per year) Note: Considering an estimated one billion people suffer from the intestinal parasite, the deaths it causes are incredibly low.
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Hippopotamus (2,900 deaths per year)
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Deathstalker Scorpion (5,000 deaths per year)
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Tsetse Fly (10,000 deaths per year) Note: Biting humans causes Human African Trypanosomiasis (aka sleeping sickness).
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Freshwater Snail (10,000 deaths per year) Note: Through the consumption of water containing snail eggs infected with schistosoma.
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Assassin Bug (10,000 deaths per year) Note: Through the transmission of Chagas disease parasite.
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Kissing Bug (11,000 deaths per year) Note: Through the transmission of Chagas disease parasite.