The Deadliest Halloween Costume Of All
It's not a shark or a snake. It buzzes. And it is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths every year.
Editor's note: This is an updated version of a story that was published on Oct. 29, 2015.
Say you want to dress up as the world's scariest animal this Halloween.
You don't need fangs, claws or horns.
All it takes is a couple of pipe cleaners, some Halloween fairy wings and a few other supplies (see complete directions at the end of this post) to transform into a mosquito, a creature that poses far more of a risk to humans than the usual suspects.
Sharks, for example, get a lot of press. But they are overrated as killers. In 2018, the death toll from shark, a drop from the annual average of 6.
