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Gates Launches 'Mosquito Week' to Crown the World's Deadliest Animal
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In April 2014, Bill Gates used his Gates Notes blog to launch 'Mosquito Week' — a riff on Shark Week — to spotlight the mosquito as by far the deadliest animal to humans, killing hundreds of thousands a year, overwhelmingly through malaria. A widely shared infographic ranked the mosquito's annual human death toll far above sharks, snakes, and even other people. The campaign, reflecting the Gates Foundation's heavy investment in fighting malaria, became one of his most viral public-education efforts.
Source: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Most-Lethal-Animal-Mosquito-week
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