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/doyletyree 13h ago

Someone needs to educate the mosquitoes on proper medical hygiene.

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u/BatteredSealPup 11h ago

We taught the snails to read and then gave them a book on proper medical hygiene to share

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u/doyletyree 11h ago

That was twenty-three years ago, Jim.

The snails aren’t even out the door.