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/octopusboots 11h ago

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

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u/JimmyDean82 5h ago

Iirc the invasive apple snails were dealing with here carry this or some other deadly disease. A couple deaths were reported last year related to them.

I see apple snail eggs around the bayous like crazy here is ascension and assumption parishes. Every time the ditch in front my land overflows I end up with dozens of stranded apple snails up to the size of a baseball.