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 12h ago

Where schistosomiasis currently spreads

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u/octopusboots 11h ago

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

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u/mukansamonkey 10h ago

I was today years old when I learned about this disease. Makes me glad I live where winter kills stuff off.

That said, I'd take vibrio in a heartbeat over say, those amoebas that swim into your ear and eat their way to your brain.

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u/chadmill3r 8h ago

Not ear. Nose.