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Snake bites kill more than 100,000 people a year as of 2015. Worse still, there's a troubling shortage of an essential antivenom.Īccording to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, there were about 437,000 homicides in 2012, making humans the second most deadly animal (and the deadliest mammal) to humans. Millions of people contract the infection, and the WHO estimates that anywhere between 20,000 and 200,000 deaths can be attributed to schistosomiasis.ĭogs - specifically dogs infected by the rabies virus - are one of the deadliest animals out there, though the virus can be prevented using vaccines.Ībout 35,000 deaths can be attributed to rabies, and of those cases, 99 percent are caused by dogs, according to WHO. The freshwater snail carries parasitic worms that infect people with a disease called schistosomiasis that can cause intense abdominal pain and blood in the stool or urine, depending on the area that's affected. The assassin bug, also called the kissing bug, is responsible for carrying Chagas disease, which kills about 12,000 people a year on average.Ĭhagas disease is a parasitic infection passed by the bug, which got its nickname by biting people on the face.ħ. At the end Stewart's self justification becomes manifest, with the last scene, Stewart driving away in a car with the license plate "VanBest" summing up this portrait of deceit and delusion.With about 10,000 new cases now reported each year, the estimated number of annual deaths is likely on the decline as well. But the documentarians do the work that this woman co-author should have done herself, and their investigation burst many of the balloons that Stewart manufactured in order to bolster his thin case. He managed to convince a respected true crime investigator to help him co-author a book which became a best seller.

But for whatever reason Stewart created this scenario of his daddy, Van Best, being the notorious murderer who terrorized San Francisco in the early 70s. The bottom line is his father was a pathetic loser, a sociopath who drank himself to death in Mexico.

Though the "hook" of the documentary is the connection between Stewart's father and The Zodiac the tale is really about Stewart's determination to find out something, anything about who the man was that abandoned him as a baby. Fascinating story about obsession, deceit and media manipulation.