• Quilotoa@lemmy.caOP
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      2 days ago

      It’s Australia. They have “rare” shark attacks too so maybe the word has some leeway.

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            1 day ago

            Y’all both need to recalibrate your threat assessment values. Mosquitos have killed more humans than hyenas or humans have, at least for now. Humans are certainly catching up

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              1 day ago

              Well, actually, they’re just the vector. The real killer is the microbe.

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                1 day ago

                Tell me exactly how you’re gonna protect yourself from said microbe, without protecting yourself from mosquitoes?

                I assume you aren’t talking about hyenas since they just crushed our (hominids) spines and skulls with their teeth for a few hundred thousand years.

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                  19 hours ago

                  Some have vaccines. Others have medicines you can take prophylactically.