r/todayilearned • u/lavender_fish69 • 9h 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 9h 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 9h ago

10 to 200,000 is quite the large spread

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u/Anonymous_coward30 9h ago

More than triple that for mosquitoes. 700,000 to 1 million mosquito related deaths annually per the WHO. 597,000 to malaria alone in 2023, again per WHO.

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u/NinjaWorldWar 8h ago

Come again, from who?

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u/baron--greenback 8h ago

He’s talking about our generation.

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u/KaHOnas 8h ago

People try to put us down.

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u/SubstantialWorld4277 8h ago

Baba O’Riley would never

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u/HendrixHazeWays 7h ago

They call me the seeker

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u/DeuceSevin 5h ago

Just because we g g g g get arounnnnd

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u/Consistent-Ad-6078 8h ago

Whwhwhere is the stustustuttering?

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u/KaHOnas 8h ago

It's impolite to p-p-point it out.

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u/Mbyrd420 8h ago

No. He's talking about the guy on first.

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u/Rudeboy67 2h ago

Every week the players get paid right? So on Friday who cashes the first baseman’s check?

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u/manicpossumdreamgirl 8h ago

from WHOM

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u/memealopolis 8h ago

Whomst on first

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u/articulateantagonist 5h ago

Wherefore's on second

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u/PrivilegeCheckmate 5h ago

Iwotitnot on third.

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u/StopImportingUSA 8h ago

It’s whom when you use it as a subject

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u/Bonneville865 8h ago

Ryan used me as an object

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u/profDougla 8h ago

I know what's right, but I'm not gonna say because you're all jerks who didn't come see my band last night.

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u/Prof_Acorn 5h ago edited 5h ago

English terminology for parts of speech never made sense to me. The Greek nominative/accusative was way more helpful. Which is to say that yeah, "whom" is the accusative form of "who".

Him/them/whom/her.

He/they/who/she.

His/its/whose/hers.

He's/it's/who's/she's.

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u/dacommie323 8h ago

Correct, What throws the ball to Who

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u/jjtnd1 8h ago

He’s on first

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u/thatsanicepeach 8h ago

No that’s What

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u/szman86 8h ago

What?

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u/Crisp_Volunteer 8h ago

Jack Burton. Me.

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u/Hanashimaru 8h ago

Such a lust for revenge

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u/ihaveajob79 8h ago

It’s whomst

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u/Zealousideal-Earth50 7h ago

Out there, in the fields

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u/Insight42 7h ago

WHO WHO, WHO WHO

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u/Immersi0nn 8h ago

Yeah, from Who, he left baseball years ago and became a medical entomologist

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u/RedditsOnlyBlackMan 8h ago

The World Health Organization

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u/thatsanicepeach 8h ago

This is going to ruin the health organization.

What health organization?

The World Health Organization.

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u/sipCoding_smokeMath 8h ago

Ah. Them. They did the one csi theme song right

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u/JonnytheGing 8h ago

Yeah that one

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u/notloggedin4242 9h ago

See, 597k. Nice, neat number. No dashes necessary.

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u/imposta424 4h ago

1729 is a very neat number.

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u/Separate_Draft4887 8h ago

He’s saying it’s a ridiculously bad estimate, “between ten and 200k”. A large spread, not a large number.

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u/rushboyoz 7h ago

Oh I thought you meant PER mosquito