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More people killed by bees than by sharks: A true but misused statistic

Whenever a discussion about sharks crops up, it almost always revolves around their relationship with humans, specifically the danger that they may pose to humans.  Only a handful of species of shark, however, will consider attacking human beings. Statistically, great white sharks, bull sharks, tiger sharks and oceanic whitetips are the ones that have attacked humans most often.                 One does not hear of the oceanic whitetip as much as the other three in that it is far harder to have an exact statistic for their attacks because they are mostly involved with shipwrecked sailors and air crash victims instead of isolated incidents. They would be the most dangerous shark by far if the true number of their attacks were in the indices.                   When one mentions the statistic of deaths by bee ...