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Learn about our editorial process. I entered through Bulawayo, a southern city in the homeland of the Ndebele tribe. People walk with heads down, as if trying not to attract attention.
At gas stations cars line up for fuel, sometimes for weeks. Zimbabwe is in trouble. It suffers 70 percent unemployment, mass poverty, annual inflation as high as percent and widespread hunger. Over the past ten years, life expectancy has dropped from 63 to 39 years of age, largely due to AIDS one quarter of the population is infected with HIV and malnutrition.
According to Amnesty International, Mugabe has rigged elections to stay in power, and he has jailed, tortured and murdered opponents. Most of the new landowners—including the justice minister, Patrick Chinamasa, who grabbed two farms—had no experience in large-scale farming, and so most farms have fallen fallow or are used for subsistence living.
They have cleared forests and built huts and fences. And they mean business. Jean-Roger Paolillo tries to keep the poachers away from the hippos. I hate doing that, but I have to protect the wild animals.
The invaders have retaliated by cutting our phone lines four times and twice surrounding our house and threatening to burn it down. The Paolillos faced their most severe crisis in February , when a group of Youth Brigades and two uniformed policemen appeared outside their door one morning. Shouting that Jean had killed someone, they marched him to the river. The dead man was a poacher, Jean says. The policemen arrested and handcuffed Jean and said they were taking him to the police station, an eight-hour trek through the forest.
Mosquitoes also carry dengue fever, yellow fever and encephalitis. The sheer number of mosquitoes adds to the risk they pose to humans. Unlike many other dangerous creatures, they can be found in nearly every part of the world at various times of year, and at peak breeding season they outnumber every other animal except ants and termites. An estimated 50, people are killed every year by snakes. The most venomous snake in the world is the Inland Taipan, also known as the Western Taipan.
Its venom is highly toxic and can kill a human being in under 45 minutes. But it is not the biggest killer, because it rarely bites humans. The saw-scaled viper is estimated to kill about 5, people every year - more than any other kind of snake. The various Krait species, also among the world's most deadly, are found mostly in East Asia.
Man's best friend? Perhaps, but not mankind's. Rabid dogs are responsible for the deaths of an estimated 25, people per year. Countries with large numbers of stray dogs, including India, are the worst affected. Dying from an actual dog bite is much more rare. It's estimated that the aggressive animal with sharp teeth kills people a year in Africa. Hippos can crush a human to death with their weight ranging anywhere from 3, to 9, pounds.
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