[Taxacom] Revised "Deadliest genera to humans"

Tue Feb 11 15:56:22 CST 2020

Sorry Francisco, this thread has had so many logic errors, I neglected 
to see you were making the same point I was, only in a more humorous 
way.  My error.

Mike

On 2/11/2020 2:02 PM, Michael A. Ivie via Taxacom wrote:
> Really Francisco?  A genus can be deadly, i.e. it can kill? Nonsense, 
> a genus is a human construct, members of species kill, but not 
> genera.  Surely this is obvious to any systematist?
>
> Mike
>
> On 2/11/2020 1:54 PM, Francisco Welter-Schultes via Taxacom wrote:
>> Well, why matter about such details. The main message is that genera 
>> can be deadly to humans and we should generally keep away from them.
>>
>> -----
>> Francisco
>>
>> Am 11.02.2020 um 21:18 schrieb Kenneth Kinman via Taxacom:
>>> Hi Tony,
>>>           Yes, sharks only kill about 10 to 20 people per year. 
>>> Crocodiles kill far more (about 1,000), hippos (500), elephants 
>>> (100) and lions (100).   I was very surprised at the 500 deaths from 
>>> hippo attacks, and also surprised about 10,000 deaths from assassin 
>>> bugs infecting people with Chagas disease.
>>>           However, another suggestion has produced another major 
>>> addition to my list.  It is an additional one for genus Homo under 
>>> "bad dietary choices", namely excess alcohol consumption (killing 
>>> about 2 to 3 million humans worldwide each year from alcoholism).  
>>> So I would add genus Saccharomyces (along with Bos, Zea, Saccharum 
>>> and/or Beta) in that category.
>>>                           --------------------Ken
>>> P.S.  I predict that the 10,000 deaths this year from Chagas disease 
>>> (via assassin bugs) will exceed the death toll from the new 
>>> coronavirus.   Meanwhile the contagious genera Norovirus and 
>>> Alphainfluenzavirus will continue to kill 500,000-800,000 every 
>>> year.    One major "silver lining" is that the new coronavirus isn't 
>>> causing much harm to children. No children or adolescents died from 
>>> the related SARS virus.
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Tony Rees <tonyrees49 at gmail.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 12:18 PM
>>> To: Kenneth Kinman <kinman at hotmail.com>
>>> Cc: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
>>> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Revised "Deadliest genera to humans"
>>>
>>> I am guessing that sharks do not make the list - too low down 
>>> (shame...)
>>>
>>> Actually I remember reading that in Australia at least, more people 
>>> are killed by horses (falling off) than are taken by sharks, making 
>>> the horse the more deadly animal (!)
>>>
>>> Best - Tony
>>>
>>> Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
>>> https://about.me/TonyRees
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 at 03:34, Kenneth Kinman via Taxacom 
>>> <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu<mailto:taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>           Okay, I agree with the suggestions.  Homo definitely tops 
>>> the list, but I'm splitting it into three categories.
>>> Revised listing of deadliest genera to humans:
>>>
>>> Homo via bad dietary choices (especially from Bos, Zea, Saccharum, 
>>> and/or Beta, i.e. excess sugars and red meat) (over 11,000,000 human 
>>> deaths per year).
>>> Homo via Nicotiana, causing cancers from tobacco smoking and chewing 
>>> (over 5,000,000 human deaths per year).
>>> Homo (humans killing over 400,000 humans per year, plus about 
>>> 800,000 suicides, totaling over 1,200,000 deaths per year).
>>> Mycobacterium, especially M. tuberculosis (over 1,200,000 human 
>>> deaths per year).
>>> Lentavirus, causing HIV infections (over 770,000 deaths per year).
>>> Plasmodium (Anopheles the vector) causing malaria (over 500,000 
>>> deaths per year).
>>> Streptococcus, causing pneumonia (about 500,000 deaths per year).
>>> Alphainfluenzavirus, causing flu (290,000-645,000 humans per year).
>>> Norovirus (about 200,000 humans per year).
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>>
>>> Schistosoma, causing schistosomiasis (about 200,000 humans in the 
>>> year 2000; but now lower due to treatment programs?)
>>> Entamoeba, causing amoebic dysentery (50,000-100,000 humans per year).
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>>
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