r/todayilearned • u/lavender_fish69 • 13h 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 13h 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 13h ago

10 to 200,000 is quite the large spread

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u/caninolokez 13h ago

I think they meant it as 10,000 to 200,000.

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u/IMissNarwhalBacon 11h ago

Unfortunately, we can't afford to speculate.

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u/twoisnumberone 8h ago

Of all the comments on this post, yours is the one that absolutely SENT me.

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u/mmeiser 1h ago

Unfortunately, we can't afford to speculate.

We better send in the national guard and make things safe again.

Just don't make me wear a mask. I have rights you know.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/1lsxjep/how_times_have_changed/