As a kid, I worried about quicksand a lot, rabies, polio, being shot at in some war (which curiously sounded alluring at age 7), amd snakes of course, a lot about snakes.
The mosquito already kills more people every year than any other creature does, and the toll is rising. Malaria deaths rose about 8 percent between 2019 and 2021, the first increases in decades.