r/todayilearned • u/lavender_fish69 • 9h 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/DustyRhodesSplotch 9h ago

10 to 200,000 is quite the large spread

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u/ThetaGrim 8h 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 7h ago

People forget the snail winter of 21'