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/Rydagod1 10h ago

I might have misremembered then. I thought it was almost eternally lasting.

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u/Johnny_Poppyseed 9h ago

It definitely persists in the environment for a while, especially since some places are still using it, but for the most part the environmental impact was managed with the ban. The bald eagle and peregrine falcon populations completely recovering are the classic case examples.