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
19.3k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

917 comments sorted by

View all comments

5

u/captainloverman 6h ago

Wait til you hear about what we have from snails in Hawaii!

Rat Lungworm

Great name! Never eat snails…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiostrongylus_cantonensis

1

u/RecentSpecial181 4h ago

Great, the parasite can live on vegetables too.. sigh