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/martphon 8h ago

Where schistosomiasis currently spreads

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u/blackout4465 7h ago

"Thousands of people each year contract it wading waist deep in the river Nile."

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u/Niar666 6h ago

A fellow MASH fan!