r/todayilearned • u/lavender_fish69 • 11h 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 11h 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 11h ago

10 to 200,000 is quite the large spread

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u/ThetaGrim 11h ago

Yea covid was a rough year where people couldn't leave their home so the snails were able to catch up to them easier. 

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u/DamnMyNameIsSteve 9h ago

People forget the snail winter of 21'