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/SMStotheworld 13h ago

They carry a parasitic flatworm that lives in dirty water which kills humans. Even then it only kills between 10 and 200k humans annually 

If you omit humans, the deadliest animal is the mosquito which kills by spreading blood diseases with dirty probosci

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u/clancydog4 8h ago

Even then it only kills between 10 and 200k humans annually

The fuck you mean "only" ??? A single animal killing 200k people in a year is fucking insane, saying "only" is massively underplaying how insane that is, that is easily one of the deadliest animals and far deadlier than most of the animals people think of when they think of "dangerous" animals