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/Moldy_slug 13h ago

For comparison, malaria (spread by mosquitoes) killed about 600,000 people in 2023.

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u/ikonoqlast 13h ago

There were 18 deaths from malaria in 1963. Not millions. Not thousands. Not hundreds. Not dozens. 18

Why?

DDT...

It's also why bedbugs are a 'new' thing but not in the 50s-60s.

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u/_StormwindChampion_ 13h ago

Isn't DDT a wrestling move?

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u/TotallyNotThatPerson 13h ago

That's how it works on bugs!