What is the most dangerous animal on earth?

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The mosquito. During the blood meals the females may either acquire or transmit various disease organisms. Many species of Anopheles mosquitoes, recognizable by their tilted resting position, carry the protozoan parasites that cause malaria; species of the genus Aedes transmit the viruses responsible for yellow fever, jungle yellow fever, and dengue fever; and in the S United States and in the tropics, members of the genus Culex, to which the common house mosquito belongs, are vectors of filariasis, the infection by a filarial worm that causes elephantiasis, and human encephalitis. The parasite slows detection by the immune system by changing the makeup of the knobs periodically, substituting or rearranging its 150 var (variability) genes, a strategy unique to malaria. This, plus the growing immunity of mosquitoes to insecticides, has caused malaria to become one the of world's leading re-emerging infectious diseases, infecting an estimated half billion people a year and killing up to 2 million. May 14 06, 11:29 AM

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Since man has nuclear weapons that are capable of easily destroying the surface of the planet an argument could be made that man is the most danagerous animal. May 14 06, 11:54 AM