Комарі та ризик для людей | Mosquitoes and human risk

More than 3,700 mosquito species are known worldwide—more than the old list claimed. The main danger usually comes not from the bite itself, but from pathogens carried by some mosquitoes. WHO estimated that malaria alone caused about 608,000 deaths in 2022. Mortality estimates across diseases and animal vectors depend on methods and year; the claim that mosquitoes kill more people than all other animals combined is not supported. Mosquitoes are among the deadliest disease vectors, but “more than all others combined” overstates the evidence.