The "ka" is the "ki"!
Hello. - Hello.
August 20 is "Mosquito Day."
There are days like that, aren't there?
So it will soon be Mosquito Week!
Today I am concerned about mosquitoes! That's what I'm talking about!
Mosquito Day was established to promote public awareness of the threat of mosquitoes.
transmitted by mosquitoes Malaria, Zika fever, dengue fever Many people have died because of the mosquito, which is known as theCreatures that have killed the most humans #1It is said that "the
When I heard this story, I thought, "Maybe .... I thought
...
...
Isn't the real first place human beings?
this means
Just because you didn't include humans in the first statistic, if you did, wouldn't humans be the ones killing the most? ...I mean, aren't there more deaths from war/combat than from mosquitoes!
therefore
... I looked into it!
First, here is the book that answered my question about mosquitoes
"A Human History of our Deadliest Predator".
（Human History through the "Most Dangerous Predators")
According to the book,
Humanity that has ever existed108 billion peopleAbout half of the52 billion peoplewas killed by a mosquito.
He said.
・・・・
・・・・
still 52 billion people is too much!
As expected, no matter how much,No war keeps killing half the population.If we are to believe this, it would seem that mosquitoes, not humans, would be in first place.
So what if we consider only more recent times?
I wondered, for example, how it would compare if we compared only the last 100 years!
Mosquitoes vs. Humans in the Data
See you then,
Let's start with the number of deaths caused by mosquitoes.
There are quite a few data published by the United Nations and global research organizations.
for example
WHO(at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusionVector-borne diseases (Diseases in humans caused by pathogens and parasites) on the Survey Data pageand several other sources,
The number of deaths due to mosquito-borne diseases isAbout 700,000 people each year.appearing to be
Continue,Number of deaths due to human combatis that
Our World in DataThere were statistics on
Let's overlay these two sets of data
And then...
What a... close game!
Tentatively assume the blue line for mosquito deaths.mosquito lineLet's call it
Then, the number of human beings who have killed human beings in themosquito lineThere are several periods when the number of
The first mountain is... World War I.
The second mountain is... World War II.
When you think about it,Maybe we call it a world war when the human threat exceeded the mosquito threat.might
But even after World War II, they crossed the Mosquito Line several times.
Though there are mountains in the period from just after WWII to 1951,
The following are likely to be included in this pile
- Korean War (1950-1953)
- Indonesian War of Independence
- (first) Indochina War (1946-1954)
- Greek Civil War
- Indo-Pacific War (1941-1945)
- Arab-Israeli Wars (1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, 1974)
- Palestinian conflict
- Myanmar Conflict (1950-1953)
- East Turkistan Conflict (1920-1943)
- Tibetan Conflict (1992-1998)
Also crossed the Mosquito Line in 1971 and 1975
The following are likely to be included at this time of year
- Vietnam war
- Arab-Israeli Wars (1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, 1974)
- Palestinian conflict
- Myanmar Conflict (1950-1953)
- Laotian Civil War
- Rhodesian Conflict (1992-1998)
- Chad Civil War
- Northern Ireland Conflict (1931-1943)
- Philippines Conflict (1992-1998)
- Jordanian Civil War
- Cambodian Civil War
- Kashmir Conflict (1948-1953)
- Cyprus Conflict
- Namibian War of Independence
- Lebanese Civil War
- invasion of East Timor
- Angolan Civil War
This makes me wonder how many wars there are (or were).
Mosquito and human.
By the development of medical technology and the evolution of medical services,
I would like to see the number of deaths caused by mosquitoes go down and down and down.
And from now on in this history, I hope that humans will not be ranked first, and that we will move toward zero without crossing the Mosquito Line.
Updated information for 2022-2025
When I first wrote this article, it was August 2021, when the Russian-Ukrainian war had not yet started!
The wars and conflicts that have existed in the period from then to the present are
As a major war
- Total invasion of Ukraine by Russia (2022-present)
- Israel-Palestine (Gaza War / Gaza invasion) (especially intensified after October 2023)
- Myanmar Civil War (2021-present)
- Ethiopian Civil War (Tigray-Amhara conflict) (2020-2022, including flare-ups)
- Sudanese Civil War (clashes between RSF and government forces) (2023-present)
- Fighting Islamic extremists in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso (Sahel regional conflict)
Other.
- Conflict in Afghanistan (fighting IS and others under Taliban regime)
- Somali civil war (fighting al-Shabaab, spillover to Kenya)
- Religious and ethnic clashes in northern and central Nigeria (including Boko Haram)
- Conflict in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (fighting with M23 and other rebel groups)
- Clashes with anti-government guerrillas and criminal organizations in Colombia, including in the Venezuelan border region
- Mexican drug war (cartel warfare and government warfare)
- Yemen Civil War (Houthis and government/Saudi coalition)
- Syrian Civil War (between government forces, rebels, Kurdish forces, ISIS remnants)
Other As dispute
- Armed uprising in northeastern India (Nagaland, Manipur, etc.)
- Fighting insurgents inside Pakistan
- Kurdish-related conflicts (Turkey, Syria, northern Iraq)
- Border clashes between Israel and Lebanon (Hezbollah)
- Armenia-Azerbaijan clashes (Nagorno-Karabakh issue, rekindled in 2023)
- Haiti security crisis (de facto civil war due to gang expansion)
- Cambodia-Thailand border clashes (localized)
May 25, 2023
Genetically modified mosquitoes, a trump card for infection control Demonstration test in the U.S.
Demonstration trials have begun in the United States of a technology that uses genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes, whose offspring are unable to reproduce, to control the spread of infectious diseases.The project is being handled by the British biotech company Oxitec. The company will release up to 750 million GM mosquitoes in the southern state of Florida and proceed with final experiments to study their effectiveness. The company aims to apply for official marketing approval within a few years.
May 25, 2023
Target Malaria team reports progress
Currently, a European laboratory has gene drive mosquitoes with altered genes that affect female fertility and is currently conducting efficacy and safety studies. The study is expected to be completed in a few years. After that, the company plans to obtain permission from regulatory authorities to conduct experimental field trials
Related to this theme.
News that "neo-Russian propaganda is disseminating misinformation that the Gates Foundation is spreading malaria" (Asahi Shimbun: Gates Foundation Spreading Malaria? Africa, where disinformation is rife, and the shadow of Russia flickers in the background.)
I thought the news was like a crossover between human and mosquito stories, as there were also
I think we need to proceed with caution because it affects the natural world, but if this works,This means that we may be on a path to a significant reduction of the mosquito threat in the next few years to decades (for the first time in human history).
On the other hand.
The human threat has yet to see a clear path to resolution.
Pray that the broken lines representing the two threats do not crossover high...
Did you know? Actually, Shikoku is not rectangular. Neither is your life.
The King of Reggae You Don't Know: Bob Marley Teaches You How to Deal with Mental Health in the Workplace
English 
Japanese