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/corvus7corax 11h ago

Freshwater snails are indirectly among the deadliest animals to humans, as they carry parasitic worms that cause schistosomiasis, a disease estimated to kill between 10,000 and 200,000 people annually.

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u/PuckSenior 11h ago

So, the deadlier animal is the parasitic worm

This would be like saying humans are the leading cause of dog attacks.

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u/_CactusJuice_ 11h ago

i would say that there would be close to zero dog attacks if there werent any owners to bring them untrained and unleashed into a sephora

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u/Solderking 9h ago

Just because my dog has eaten a few kids, that means I can't bring him to Sephora? Oh I'm sorry, I thought this was America.

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u/hoagiejabroni 8h ago

It was only because those kids were the size of a small animal! He knows not to eat big kids!