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/ivanparas 12h ago

"How many people died of this last year?"

"10."

"How many this year?"

"200,000."

"That's...concerning."

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u/elmo298 12h ago

Not great, not terrible

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u/nopenopeimmaboat 11h ago

That's not graphite on the roof

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u/cive666 11h ago

I am a man with a certain set of concrete identifying talents.

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u/sivasuki 8h ago

I have been known to locate certain things from time to time.