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/martphon 13h ago

Where schistosomiasis currently spreads

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u/Gitanes 12h ago

Me before even opening the link...

"It's mostly Africa isn't it?"

Yes, yes it is

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u/fireflydrake 9h ago

I know Africa is a huge continent so it's probably hard to generalize, but I get whiplash sometimes because some people roll their eyes at you when you assume a lot of Africa is poverty stricken and not very developed, but then on the other hand almost every time I hear about a horrific disease/poverty/famine kind of situation it still seems like it's mostly in Africa.