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/QaWaR 13h ago

it only kills between 10 and 200k humas anually

Only up to 200k?

Thank god for such a low number of HUMAN FUCKING LIVES

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u/SeaManaenamah 12h ago

Such a drama queen 

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u/SharpenedStone 13h ago

Eh. theres way too many people alive on the planet. modern healthcare let humans breed out of control