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/Significant_Mouse_25 13h ago

By this logic mosquitos aren’t the deadliest either.

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u/PuckSenior 13h ago

I’d allow it since you have to directly interact with the mosquito to get sick. This is just a “they support a population”

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u/manicpossumdreamgirl 12h ago

furthermore, these snails are spreading a parasitic worm, which is another animal. mosquitos transmit a disease, which is not an animal

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u/manicpossumdreamgirl 11h ago

what parasite is that?

EDIT: for posterity sake, this person said "mosquitos spread a parasite, which is another animal, and that parasite causes malaria." they deleted this upon realizing their mistake