Freshwater snails are more deadly than sharks.

  • Freshwater snails spread schistosomiasis.
Freshwater snails spread schistosomiasis.
 

They might have huge teeth, swim faster than we can run and have Hollywood movies made about them but sharks are less deadly than snails. Every year a mere ten swimmers are killed by sharks all over the world while tiny snails in tropical rivers spread schistosomiasis, which kills 10,000 people annually, eclipsing the toll from the stars of "Jaws".