Artistic Science

nanodash:

jliusaysherro:

good:

It’s Shark Week! That time of year where television networks pretend sharks are the most dangerous animal out there. Here we compare how many people are killed by sharks per year versus the two deadliest animals for humans - mosquitos and other people. Want to learn more? Watch the video here where we highlight 15 of the deadliest animals out there.

what’s up with those snails doe?

At first guess I thought it meant venomous cone snails. But it’s much worse.

They’re probably talking about freshwater snails. These snails are hosts for a kind of parasitic worm. The worm gets released into the water, and can infect people, causing a disease called  Schistosomiasis or snail fever, it wrecks in the intestines and liver and kills up to 10,000 people a year.

Though in lots of ancient tropical cultures they thought that the blood in the urine symptoms were normal, just penis periods.

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