[Taxacom] human death list

Mon Mar 29 15:18:42 CDT 2021

The caveat "contributed to the death of " might well apply to all the other
diseases as well. And perhaps even killing of humans since a number of
other factors are also involved (such as being present at the time of
death, or then dying because of the lack of medical resources immediately
to hand etc.).

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 3:28 PM Stephen Thorpe via Taxacom <
taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:

>  It may not be as simple as saying that Betacoronavirus "killed 2m", but
> rather "contributed to the death of 2m", or even just "2m people died
> within 28 days of a positive covid test". There seems to be a lot of wiggle
> room for "creative accounting" of covid deaths, more so than other
> c.o.d.'s. At least some of the 2m for Betacoronavirus need to be
> substracted from the totals from other c.o.d.'s (crucially including other
> things not in the list like "old age"), but, of course, we can't know the
> details there. I also note that, unlike the other causes on your list, the
> 2m figure for Betacoronovirus is based on a sample size of n=1 (year), so
> even a five year average is as yet unknown. It seems plausible that the
> first year could be by far the most deadly. This invalidates comparisons
> somewhat.
> Stephen
>
>     On Tuesday, 30 March 2021, 07:38:14 am NZDT, Kenneth Kinman via
> Taxacom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:
>
>  Hi Les,
>         Yes, I seriously underestimated what the death toll would be from
> this pandemic.  My list was for deaths per calendar year, and the death
> toll for 2020 was about 2,000,000 worldwide.  So genus Betacoronavirus is
> now second behind genus Homo as the deadliest.  See updated listing below.
>                     -----------------Ken Kinman
>
>                                             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).
> Betacoronavirus (killed about 2,000,000 humans in the year 2020).
> 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).
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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).
> Aedes (carrying several viral diseases) (over 50,000 human death 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).
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ________________________________
> From: Taxacom <taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> on behalf of Les
> Watling via Taxacom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2021 12:49 PM
> To: Cc: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
> Subject: [Taxacom] human death list
>
> As the covid-19 pandemic was beginning to unfold a few persons on this list
> put out ranked lists of deaths of humans from various things like the early
> 20th century flu pandemic, wars, and the like.
>
> I am wondering if those who posted during the early days of the covid
> pandemic a year ago have thought of updating their lists of major causes of
> human deaths. I seem to remember there was some thought that this wasn't
> going to be a very serious pandemic, but I could be wrong about that.
>
> In any case, I am curious about where the covid-19 total death numbers rank
> with other pandemics, wars, etc.
>
> Best,
> Les Watling
> Professor, School of Life Sciences
> 216 Edmondson Hall
> University of Hawaii at Manoa
> Honolulu, HI 96822
> Ph. 808-956-8621
> Cell: 808-772-9563
> e-mail: watling at hawaii.edu
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