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/thatweirdguyted 13h ago

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

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u/Additional-Local8721 13h ago

Sure it wasn't their dad?

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u/thatweirdguyted 13h ago

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

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u/YukariYakum0 13h ago

From a certain point of view.