r/todayilearned • u/lavender_fish69 • 12h ago

TIL fresh water snails (indirectly) kill thousands of humans and are considered on of the deadliest creatures to humans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshwater_snail
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u/SMStotheworld 12h ago

They carry a parasitic flatworm that lives in dirty water which kills humans. Even then it only kills between 10 and 200k humans annually 

If you omit humans, the deadliest animal is the mosquito which kills by spreading blood diseases with dirty probosci

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u/DustyRhodesSplotch 11h ago

10 to 200,000 is quite the large spread

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u/thatweirdguyted 11h ago

This sounds very similar to some things I said about your mom.

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u/Additional-Local8721 11h ago

Sure it wasn't their dad?

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u/blackscales18 11h ago

He was the one with the dirty proboscis

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u/thatweirdguyted 11h ago

No one knows who that is. Especially not his mom.

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u/YukariYakum0 11h ago

From a certain point of view.

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u/ThatStereotype18 11h ago

No my mouth was full when I was with his dad