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This is a list of organisms that are dangerous to humans. They are dangerous because:
- they have instinctively aggressive behavior
- humans themselves are in their diet.
- they are poisonous to humans.
For convenience, "organisms" includes viruses, in addition to animals, plants and others.
Animals
[edit]Attacking Animals
[edit]Animals that have been known to attack and eat humans
[edit]Insects
[edit]Fish
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Reptiles
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Mammals
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Animals that have been known to injure/kill humans in self defense
[edit]Invertebrates
[edit]Fish
[edit]Reptiles
[edit]Birds
[edit]Mammals
[edit]Venomous Animals
[edit]Venomous non-biting animals
[edit]Invertebrates
[edit]- Box Jellyfish [7]
- Portuguese Man Of War
- Irukandji jellyfish
- Lion's mane jellyfish
- Scorpion
- Cone snail
Amphibians
[edit]Fish
[edit]Birds
[edit]Mammals
[edit]Venomous biting animals
[edit]Reptiles
[edit]- Brown Snake
- Cobra
- Copperhead
- Coral snake
- Cottonmouth
- Death Adder
- Mamba
- Rattlesnake
- Taipan
- Viper
- Gila Monster
Invertebrates
[edit]- Centipede
- Flea
- Black Widow Spider
- Brown Recluse
- Hobo Spider
- Caterpillar
- Jumping Spider
- Funnel-Web Spider
- Brazilian Spider
- Scorpion
- Wolf spider
- Blue-Ringed Octopus
Mammals
[edit]Parasites
[edit]Plants
[edit]Poisonous plants
[edit]Fungi
[edit]Poisonous fungi
[edit]Protozoa
[edit]Bacteria
[edit]- Escherichia Coli
- Shigella
- Salmonella
- Clostridium botulinum
- Clostridium tetani
- Bacillus anthracis
- Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
- Vibrio Cholerae
- Yersinia Pestis
- Streptococcus pyogenes
- Acinetobacter baumannii
- Acinetobacter calcoaceticus
- Actinomyces israelii
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Bacillus subtilis
- Bordetella pertussis
- Borrelia burgdorferi
- Borrelia recurrentis
- Brucella melitensis
- Brucella abortus
- Brucella suis
- Brucella canis[8]
Viruses
[edit]Footnotes
[edit]- ^ The Rock python has only one attack, on a child
- ^ See [[1]] for topics or [[2]] for daily articles on this subject. [citation needed]
- ^ A Chimpanzee named Frodo killed and ate a toddler. Other predatory attacks on children had been reported before. [citation needed]
- ^ There was a case of a Chow Chow killing and eating a man [citation needed]
- ^ "Is the fear of wolves justified? A Fennoscandian perspective" (PDF). Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe. Retrieved 2007-06-01.
- ^ See [[3]] for topics or [[4]] for daily articles on this subject. [citation needed]
- ^ Box jellyfish attacks especially involve Chironex fleckeri
- ^ http://130.54.99.137/alphabetlist-e.html
See also
[edit]- list of fatal, unprovoked shark attacks in the United States by decade
- list of fatal alligator attacks in the United States by decade
- list of fatal bear attacks in North America by decade
External links
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Category:Human-animal interaction
Category:Biology lists
Category:Lists of animals
Category:Lists of plants