Dangerous Australians: 11 things that can kill you in Australia

In that year, lower respiratory infections caused 9.9 percent of all deaths in Africa, while HIV/AIDS accounted for around 5.6 percent of deaths….Distribution of the leading causes of death in Africa in 2019.

There were 541 animal-related deaths reported to an Australian coroner between 2001 and 2017, with an average of 32 animal-related deaths reported per calendar year. Land mammals comprised the majority (71.0%) of deaths, with nearly one third (31.8%) of animal-related deaths involving horses.

• Sharks. Australia has the highest number of fatal shark attacks in the world.
• Crocodiles. Australian crocodiles have the strongest bite ever measured: at 3,000 kg of pressure, it would possibly even rival that of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
• Centipedes.
• Jack jumper ants.
• Bees and wasps.
• Poisonous spiders.
• On the beach.
• In the water.

KOALAS. Koala-on-koala violence is generally pretty mild, but they have been known to go after dogs and even humans. For example: In December 2014, Mary Anne Forster of South Australia found herself at the receiving end of a vicious bite after trying to protect her two dogs from an aggressive koala.

Chart of the day: You’re probably not afraid of Australia’s deadliest animals. Mosquitoes kill more than 700,000 people worldwide every year. Snakes are second on the list, killing about 110,000 people.

There are a few recorded kangaroo attacks, though we have been able too find only human death by roo attack which occurred in New South Wales in 1936 where a hunter was killed when he tried to rescue his two dogs from a fight with a kangaroo.

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Eastern brown snake

Snake species It has been estimated that 7,000–8,000 people per year receive venomous snake bites in the United States, and about five of those people die. Most fatal bites are attributed to the eastern diamondback rattlesnake and the western diamondback rattlesnake.

It is among the three heaviest snakes. Like all pythons, it is a non-venomous constrictor. Adult humans have been killed (and in at least two reported cases, eaten) by reticulated pythons.

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