Bee stings, and yes in most countries it is true. Check yours.
That is why we just get on with our lives.
Forty people died from bee, wasp or hornet venom in Canada during a 12-year stretch ending in 2011, the most recent period for which national numbers are available from Statistics Canada. In other words, an average of 3.3 Canadians died from bee stings each year. That compares with 10 deaths by lightings and 1.25 deaths per year by bear attacks. Number of deaths by terrorism in Canada is indeed smaller than number of bee sting fatalities.
Sadly, the number one killers in the country are the doctors prescribing wrong medications.
As it turns out, 138,000 – or one in every 18 – patients admitted to a Canadian hospital in 2014-15 suffered some kind of harmful event that could potentially have been prevented, from getting the wrong drug to developing an infection, a report released Wednesday has found. Of those 138,000 patients, about 30,000 had more than one adverse event that compromised their care. Of the 138,000 patients identified in the report, 17,300 – or one in eight – died while in hospital. And these are just the reported cases.