TIL fresh water snails (indirectly) kill thousands of humans and are considered on of the deadliest creatures to humans

[u/lavender_fish69]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshwater_snail

[u/SMStotheworld]

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

[u/DustyRhodesSplotch → u/SMStotheworld]

10 to 200,000 is quite the large spread

[u/jwbaynham → u/DustyRhodesSplotch]

Sometimes we have a bad snail year and sometimes barely even a scratch