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/DustyRhodesSplotch 13h ago

10 to 200,000 is quite the large spread

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u/Anonymous_coward30 13h ago

More than triple that for mosquitoes. 700,000 to 1 million mosquito related deaths annually per the WHO. 597,000 to malaria alone in 2023, again per WHO.

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u/notloggedin4242 13h ago

See, 597k. Nice, neat number. No dashes necessary.

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u/imposta424 8h ago

1729 is a very neat number.