[Taxacom] Deadliest genera to humans (in the 21st Century)

[Tony Rees]

Is Black Death a contender (historic case), or similar?

Cheers - Tony

Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
https://about.me/TonyRees


On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 at 05:55, Kenneth Kinman via Taxacom <
taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:

> Hi All,
>         I was asked about Yersinia (plague), but from 2010 to 2015 there
> were 3248 cases reported worldwide, including 584 deaths.  So the current
> yearly deaths from plague are far below the cutoff of 50,000 in my revised
> list.  And there is no reason to believe genus Betacoronavirus (which now
> dominates news coverage of diseases) will kill anywhere near 50,000, so the
> new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is not on the list either.
>         Note that in my revised listing below, I have added Treponema to
> those in the high death number list, and I moved Norovirus down into the
> less than 250,000 deaths list.
>                              -----------------Ken
>
>                                             Deadliest genera to humans in
> the 21st Century
>
> Homo via bad dietary choices (especially those derived from Saccharomyces,
> Bos, Zea, Saccharum, and/or Beta, i.e. excess consumption of sugars,
> alcohol, and/or red meat) (resulting in over 13,000,000 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 900,000 deaths per year).
> Streptococcus, causing pneumonia and streptococcal meningitis (over
> 500,000 deaths per year).
> Plasmodium (Anopheles the vector) causing malaria (about 400,000 deaths
> per year).
> Alphainfluenzavirus, causing flu (290,000-645,000 human deaths per year).
> Treponema, causing syphilis (about 100,000 deaths per year, plus over
> 200,000 stillbirths and neonatal deaths; total over 300,000 deaths).
>
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> Rotavirus, causing enteritis (over 150,000 human deaths per year).
> Salmonella, causing typhoid fever (over 100,000 human deaths per year).
> Neisseria, causing meningococcal meningitis (about 75,000 human deaths per
> year).
> Haemophilus, causing type b meningitis (about 70,000 human deaths per
> year).
> Entamoeba, causing amoebic dysentery (50,000-100,000 humans per year).
> Clostridium, causing tetanus (about 60,000 human deaths per year).
> Norovirus (over 50,000 human deaths per year; with some estimates as high
> as 200,000).
> Cryptosporidium, causing cryptosporidiosis (over 50,000 human deaths per
> year).
> Schistosoma, causing schistosomiasis (about 50,000 deaths; about 200,000
> humans in the year 2000; but treatment programs have reduced the number).
> Bordetella, causing whooping cough (about 50,000 human deaths per year).
> Shigella, causing shigellosis (about 50,000 human deaths per year).
>
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