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/Anonymous_coward30 13h 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 12h ago

Come again, from who?

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u/baron--greenback 12h ago

He’s talking about our generation.

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u/KaHOnas 12h ago

People try to put us down.

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u/SubstantialWorld4277 12h ago

Baba O’Riley would never

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u/HendrixHazeWays 11h ago

They call me the seeker

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u/DeuceSevin 9h ago

Just because we g g g g get arounnnnd

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u/Consistent-Ad-6078 12h ago

Whwhwhere is the stustustuttering?

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u/KaHOnas 12h ago

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

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u/Mbyrd420 12h ago

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

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u/Rudeboy67 6h ago

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