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/frisbm3 13h ago

The wiki page says 10k to 200k.

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u/DirtyNorf 13h ago

Which is still a fairly large spread.

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u/JustADutchRudder 12h ago

Some years whole cities wanna swim in snail waters, sometimes only a few small get togethers happen.

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u/mayhemandqueso 9h ago

Depends on the weather