[at-l] pig deaths

[Phillips <gammara1@mediaone.net>]

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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 14:07:36 -0600
From: Andrew Yip <AndrewY@micrografx.com>
Subject: RE: [pct-l] Re: Bears

>To put
>this in perspective, for each death from a black bear across North
>America,
>there are approximately 17 deaths from spiders, 25 deaths from snakes,
67
>deaths from dogs, 150 deaths from tornadoes, 180 deaths from bees and
>wasps,
>374 deaths from lightning, and 90,000 homicides in the United States
>alone
>(data from the National Center for Health Statistics, 1980-1983).

And, in case sharks scare you too, each year more people are killed by
domestic pigs than sharks.

- -Yip
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