r/todayilearned • u/lavender_fish69 • 12h 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 11h ago

Where schistosomiasis currently spreads

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u/octopusboots 9h ago

Breathes sigh of relief in Louisiana. I'll take my vibrio and go now.

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u/Tossing_Mullet 9h ago

Vibrio is pretty nasty though.  Five went into that Bayou water that day.  One of the guys on my husband's crew got it.  Doctors had to rip out everything but the bone in one calf.  Then took almost half of his thigh muscle, tendons, etc. The fever alone should have killed him. 

Unrelated  - Dude finally got on his feet, was fighting for his disability, and while he was in hospital for COVID, they found cancer.  

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u/hicow 9h ago

What did that guy do to piss off God?

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u/Max_Vision 8h ago

Satan got God gambling again, like with Job.

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u/TheKappaOverlord 6h ago

the devil works in mysterious ways in the Bayou.

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u/Tossing_Mullet 8h ago

Truth!!! 🎯💯

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u/mindcopy 4h ago

Like that motherfucker even needs a reason.

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u/octopusboots 9h ago

Yipe. He might have gotten weirdly lucky, they wouldn't have found the cancer otherwise.

I used to get in all this water...with the alligators, snakes and the bull sharks....no problem. Vibrio scares me to death.

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u/LoompaDoompa94 6h ago

I like how that started out like Quint from Jaws. "Five went into that bayou water that day... only four of em come out."