What animal is responsible for the most deaths, worldwide?

Percytherat

Probably the mosquito, they transmit disease to 700 million people a year, icludig malaria, yellow fever. elephatiasis,epidemic polyarthritis, Rift Valley fever, Ross River Fever, St. Louis encephalitis, West Nile virus (WNV), Japanese encephalitis, La Crosse encephalitis and several other encephalitis type diseases - resulting in millions of deaths http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito#Mosquitoes_and_health Sep 08 08, 7:23 AM

author

You may be right, but if so, a good # 2 would be the human being. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_and_disasters_by_death_toll During pests, the rat will also be a contestor. At the time I would guess that the tse tse fly is # 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tse_tse_fly Sep 08 08, 10:23 AM

unclerick

I am very sad to say the animal is us, you and me. Mans inhumanity to man in the form of wars, man made famines, genocide, death camps, human sacrifice, crime to name some of the major ones. Lets turn this around - you and me ! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_and_disasters_by_death_toll Sep 08 08, 10:39 AM

stedman

According to "The Book of General Ignorance", the second most deadly creature (as a killer of humans) is the Mongolian Marmot (Marmota Bobak). Here's a picture of some: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmota_bobak Mongolian Marmots are particularly susceptible to bubonic plague, and all the great plagues that swept through Eastern Asia to Europe originated from Marmots in Mongolia. The estimated human death toll is over a billion. "General Ignorance" also confirms that: "Half the human beings who have ever died, perhaps as many as 45 billion people, have been killed by female mosquitoes (the males only bite plants)." Sep 10 08, 1:36 AM