Are leeches valuable in any way, or did this guy just really love leeches?
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Leeches naturally thrive in a variety of environments, including rivers, ponds, estuaries, and saltwater, which is great for leeches — less so for unsuspecting swimmers.
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There are more than six hundred leech species: "Not all leeches suck blood and not all bloodsucking leeches seek the blood of humans," she writes.
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"The leeches are hungry," Natasha Bogdanova, an employee of the International Center for Medicinal Leeches, observed as she ladled warm blood into the cloth-lined colander.
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Medicinal leeches cost 90 cents each in Russia, compared with $15.50 for leeches sold by Leeches USA, a medicinal leech supplier based in Westbury, N.Y. They are raised in leech farms where, in Russia, women in white laboratory coats follow a procedure little changed over the decades.
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Medicinal leeches cost less than one U.S. dollar per icky blob, and doctors say leeches' venom is a low-cost preventative treatment for stroke and heart disease.
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For leeches, you roll your socks up over your shoes, but I once went through this one area and I was just going along ignoring the leeches and then I finally stopped and looked down and I pulled — I counted — it was over 130 leeches I pulled off my shoes.
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Fortunately, "there is a horde of leeches in this park," Dr. Siddall said, so the researchers won't need to track down actual animals that live there, just the leeches.
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Leeches — yes, leeches — are still widely prescribed in Russian medicine, about 103 million of them every year, in many cases as a low-cost substitute for blood thinners like warfarin.
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"We've had leeches that can live off a single blood meal for a year," said Michael Tessler, a researcher at the American Museum of Natural History who is a co-author of a recent paper on leeches in the Journal of Parasitology, which focused on the anticoagulant genes in leeches' salivary organs.
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Who would try to import thousands of leeches and why?
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What do you say when you're caught with 3,950 leeches?
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Still, there's some scientific reasons why people turn to leeches.
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Leeches release an enzyme that acts as a local anticoagulant.
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To those who love them, leeches are just incredibly cool.
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But it's debatable whether the leeches actually caused those deaths.
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But putting leeches on the patient is not the answer.
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Well, leeches are good for bait, although fake ones are cheaper.
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Gaskell was covered in leeches and disoriented, according to Sky News.
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Take leech cocoons, the sacks in which leeches lay their eggs.
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"I kept the leeches, they're in my koi pond," Kerr said.
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They described it as dangerous Old World superstition, like using leeches.
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It's the vague talk of toxins that reminds doctors of leeches.
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The only thing we encountered were squadrons of dry-ground leeches.
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Moving on, what do you say when you're caught with 5,000 leeches?
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Did the dog who found the leeches at least get a raise?
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And how did we get to the practice of leeches and bloodletting?
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He "leeches" some of lead character Manfred's energy simply by touching him.
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According to modern research, leeches are undeserving of the Stephen King treatment.
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Squirming like leeches for the favor of Lord High Bloodsucker, Count Trump.
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Is a youthful glow worth having leeches crawl all over your face?
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Until that point, leeches and bloodletting remained at least somewhat in vogue.
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Why are so many Americans branding such people as criminals and leeches?
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They don't even have people there; it was just us and leeches.
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Article of the Day Article: Despite the 'Yuck Factor,' Leeches Are Big in Russian Medicine Before Reading What do you know about leeches and how they have been used throughout the ages to treat various medical disorders and diseases?
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In a graphic display, leeches are shown to be sucking against bare skin.
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One of the current uses of leeches is to assist in wildlife surveys.
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These leeches will do whatever it takes to insert themselves into the zeitgeist.
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To get rid of it then is as simple as shaking off leeches.
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Underage sex workers in revealing drag attach themselves like leeches to prospective clients.
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Grunts wore condoms to protect themselves from leeches that could burrow inside genitals.
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Whatever my lawyer calls them — gang members or leeches — I allowed them in.
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In any case, it is clear that leeches are becoming a popular, low-cost treatment once again, especially in places such as Russia, where 10 million leeches are prescribed each year, according to an article from the Miami Herald last year.
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Are we ever gonna find out what was up with all these goddamn leeches?
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We generally don't use leeches (though there's still at least one present-day use).
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We took a leaf from "Bloodsuckers: Legends to Leeches," an exhibition that opens Nov.
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If you thought it went the way of bloodletting and medicinal leeches, think again.
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How many times are leeches prescribed in Russia each year, according to the article?
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It's a crazy mixture of alternative medicine, faith healing and even leeches for facials.
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He had leeches applied to his face to drain blood from his swollen wounds.
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She said she had chosen leeches for cost savings and to avoid taking painkillers.
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The fake leeches looked [too] fake, so I had real leeches on my arm sucking my blood … I thought it would make me feel really sick and like I was dying and help with the acting, but really it just made me giggle.
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Where do you store thousands of leeches, eight and a half miles in the sky?
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But as the era of modern medicine began rolling along, leeches faded out of relevance.
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In space, the calcium leeches out of your bones and they become osteoporotic and brittle.
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Hirudin, an anticoagulant derived from leeches, was essential in early human dialysis, he pointed out.
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In order to survive it leeches water and nutrients off the roots of a vine.
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If you're in Russia, those little charges might include half a dozen slimy, slithering leeches.
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Here are a few of my favorites: • Put some blood-sucking leeches behind your ears.
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She went on to sustain a living supplying a local infirmary with — poetic justice — leeches.
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Who was taking care of these orchids while he was in Russia gathering thousands of leeches?
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And, believe it or not, there have been cases of people using leeches for dental issues.
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And since leeches, you know, suck your blood, you could also end up with blood loss.
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In this case, the leeches and their host – the human body – are beneficial to each other.
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He had flown into Toronto with almost 2000,0003 leeches in a grocery bag — for personal use.
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There are now 700 species of leeches, and 200 of them no longer feed on blood.
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But many of Russia's medical leeches are raised in farms by experts in white lab coats.
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That's when it hit me, my stench filling the room and leeches nursing on my flesh.
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George becomes particularly enthralled by what she calls "an essential tool in the bloodletter's armamentarium"—leeches.
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But chain messages are the leeches of social media: They feed off loyalty, friendship and guilt.
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It feels very leeches to me, some of the time, when I go into the hospitals.
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It leeches the true meaning of dating by putting it an algorithm and letting it rip.
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"How did such a large number of leeches end up there?" you, a total rube, might ask.
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Although worms are only supposed to be used once, there's a potential that leeches could transmit diseases.
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It doesn't biodegrade easily and leeches from the soil into groundwater, which has serious human health implications.
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While encouraging, the initial study was based on a sample of just 25 leeches caught in Vietnam.
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Leeches solve the vitamin problem by playing host to bacteria in their stomachs that create B vitamins.
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Traditional Chinese Medicine has been using leeches for hundreds of years and considers it a "typical" treatment.
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He opposes spending taxpayer dollars on private school tuition, which he says leeches funding from public education.
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The Polish leech firm, meanwhile, told Reuters it's exporting around 400,000 thousand leeches a year now. Yowza.[Reuters]
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Although smaller than leeches and perhaps not as feared, they are vastly more numerous and arguably more hated.
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Looking at the toll insects take when they drink blood kind of makes leeches look like humanity's friend.
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Dried leeches can be ground into a powder that Chinese tradition says has a variety of medicinal benefits.
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The study's principal investigator Daniel Shain from Rutgers studies leeches because "not many people study them," he said.
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More training by NATO forces is unlikely to fix these long-term leeches on the Afghan forces' strength.
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Kick back, throw on some leeches, and listen to the premiere of No Age's "Serf to Serf" below.
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In 10-20 years, many of today's medical practices will look as antiquated as applying leeches for bloodletting.
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All of us, arguably, are not primary generators of wealth, but leeches dependent on the real wealth generators.
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And never fear, there's a chapter about shark repellent to make up for the unfortunate lack of leeches.
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Most people are leeches anyway, and affording luxuries like drugs isn't cheap in NYC, so stinginess is understandable.
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From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,We must take back our land again,America!
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From those who live like leeches on the people's lives, We must take back our land again, America!
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Left to pay out of pocket at clinics or commercial drugstores, patients gravitate toward cheaper options, like leeches.
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At the clinic, Dr. Irina A. Pankova applies leeches to treat glaucoma, prostatitis, hypertension and many more ailments.
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They haven't replied yet but probably someone had the very tedious job of counting and cataloging 5,000 individual leeches.
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"For one thing, the saliva of leeches contains molecules that cause vasodilatation or dilation of blood vessels," he explained.
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His days were spent not in an office, not out with friends — but alone in the woods, attracting leeches.
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Terrestrial leeches are found in humid regions stretching from Madagascar to southern Asia to a number of Pacific islands.
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And that's nothing to say of other, even more garbage pages—the bots, the follow back leeches, the thieves.
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But leeches fell out of favor with many doctors as claims about their healing effects proved to be hollow.
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The practices, some believe, results in brighter, tighter skin that's revitalized thanks to special proteins secreted from the leeches.
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Kerr, bless her heart, took the leeches home in order to save them from being murdered by her aesthetician.
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I sometimes picture him attaching his characters like leeches to his arms and allowing them to suck his lifeblood.
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Trilobites Researchers examined the arsenal of anticoagulants used by marine leeches to feed on turtles, fish and even sharks.
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"Just like there are mosquitoes and leeches on land that will bite humans, the same happens in the ocean."
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And so for now the leeches are sold, squirming and hungry, in glass canning jars, waiting for their patients.
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The women and Colton visited "The Leech Lady," and were greeted by a woman administering leeches onto another man's back.
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"I don't know how big this will become, but I think leeches have quite a bit of potential," he said.
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Is it only a matter of time before Tom Brady starts sporting leeches on his knees to treat his injuries?
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Once leeches are peeled away, the resulting wounds leak blood for another six hours, until the anticoagulant chemicals wear off.
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But a slew of scientific studies in recent years have shown that leeches do offer medical benefits in limited applications.
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The blood-suckers are creeping back into clinics and hospitals around the world, including in the U.S. Jar o' leeches.
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They were surprised to find that despite the leeches' differing taste in hosts, they made many of the same anticoagulants.
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You enlisted leeches, siphon, syringe – but still feel weak, foolish transparent, bureau- cratic, and, in the end, remained the infanta.
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What do you think explains the significant difference in the price of medicinal leeches in Russia and the United States?
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As they engorge themselves with blood, the leeches bulge to six to seven times their original size before dropping off.
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Photo: PixabayOur neighbors to the north currently have, as you might have guessed, 21,2000 non-indigenous leeches stuck in customs limbo.
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The rest of the gang didn't seem to have any qualms, and they had leeches applied to their arms and stomachs.
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Or there was another one about leeches on my skin, which I know people do, but it's never happened to me.
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Leeches are now used in certain kinds of surgery, such as the reattachment of a body part, to drain excess blood.
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"I've had a leech facial," Kerr said, noting that she enlisted the help of the leeches for her tailbone as well.
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It harkens back to the image of spouses as leeches, feeding off their service member's benefits and contributing little in return.
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You don't know who's in your corner, because there's a lot of leeches and a lot of fake love going on.
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That's because they're not criminal masterminds or masters of the universe – just opportunistic leeches feeding off a broken global financial system.
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Just a bunch of vapid LA leeches with no other professional skills blabbing about absolutely nothing (not like us esteemed bloggers!).
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Leeches must also keep the blood from solidifying in their own digestive tract long after they've let go of their host.
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Leeches are still frequently prescribed as a preventive treatment for stroke and heart disease in Russia, typically costing $1 a pop.
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It seems like, yeah, he just put them in his bags, and the bags were filled with "hundreds of containers" of leeches.
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The researchers set up 30 camera trap sites in four forest reserves in Bangladesh and captured 200 leeches in the same spots.
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At Bordeaux's CHU hospital, Professor Philippe Pelissier explained how the leeches are used - mainly to prevent blood clots arising after plastic surgery.
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I needed a little pick-me-up, so I turned to a tried and true method of rejuvenation and overall wellness: leeches.
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There's actually a big difference between leeches and standard bloodletting, at least in the minds of the pseudo-scientific leech therapy community.
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The illusion of symbiosis between the two families is eventually shattered when the Kims learn there are other leeches in the ecosystem.
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"I hope that this kind of fragmented billing will be viewed in 100 years like we think about blood-letting or leeches today."
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He was a co-author on two papers confirming that leeches and their blood meals offer a fast, cheap method for surveying biodiversity.
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But Ms. Weiskopf pointed out that the cameras were rolling for nearly nine months, while the leeches were collected in just four days.
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Vampires get all the attention at this time of year, but bloodthirsty leeches, insects and birds are just as compelling — and they're real.
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In 1985, after some failed attempts using conventional means, a Harvard doctor used leeches to save a five-year-old child's severed ear.
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People in the world of Observer fear leeches because they tend to go crazy after rummaging around in the brains of society's criminals.
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He relentlessly paints immigrants as leeches, sucking America dry of all the resources that should be going, presumably, to tax-paying white people.
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If the pond dries up or food runs out, or a newt suffers from too many leeches, it can move back to land.
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"They were perilous at times, and physically demanding, with heat, dust, sweat and danger from wild animals — from blood-sucking leeches to tigers."
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They were perilous at times and physically demanding, with heat, dust, sweat and danger from wild animals — from blood-sucking leeches to tigers.
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This water needs to be poured through cloth to filter out leeches and worms, and even then, it's still contaminated by disease-causing pathogens.
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He said that dried leeches can be ground into a powder that is reputed in Chinese traditional medicine to have a variety of benefits.
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He and Dr. Kvist are off to Madagascar in November to collect leeches in an area that is being eyed for its conservation potential.
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Or leeches, which are approved by the U.S. government as a medical device and are still used in some surgeries to drain excess blood.
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For the last 23 years, Brigitte Latrille has been cultivating leeches in her laboratory near Bordeaux, and says she is doing a roaring trade.
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In Europe, meanwhile, patients can get the therapeutic benefits of leeches without slapping any of the slimy creatures on their arms, heads, and legs.
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Nadezhda Loba, who took home 100 leeches in a plastic jug, told the NYT she applies the worms on her temples to treat conjunctivitis.
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But after a while the Grand Guignol effects start to get under your skin — unless that's just the leeches crawling out of their jar.
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Misconceptions Actually: To say that drinking juice detoxifies the body isn't quite the same as claiming leeches suck out poisons, but it's fairly close.
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Bloodletting, either with leeches or just an old-fashioned knife in the arm, has been a mainstay of medicine since at least ancient Egypt.
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The most common modern medical use of leeches is in plastic surgery, where they can be effective in draining swollen tissue after an operation.
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One substance, called destabilase, particularly intrigued the researchers because it is also common in the jawed leeches, which are a more recently evolved group.
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Trilobites From crushed leeches soaked in vinegar to modern chemical compounds, fashionable humans have sought ways to dye their hair for thousands of years.
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Not us; our ideas about government were made when men and women were kept in chains, doctors used leeches, and everyone shit in buckets.
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The F.D.A. has approved leeches for draining blood, for example using them to remove excess blood from severed body parts that have been reattached.
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Someone sat next to those bags for the better part of a day and at no point said, "Hey, your luggage absolutely reeks of leeches"?
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And leeches have several adaptations to protect themselves from iron, including a type of tissue that binds iron to proteins to make it less toxic.
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The last time we saw Gendry, he was strapped to a bed, covered in leeches, and about to be sacrificed by Melisandre (Carice van Houten).
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By contrast, the 13 women who go on the group date just get to wander around Singapore, trying on leeches and snacking on local delicacies.
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Meanwhile, sharp-fanged leeches at Breitbart are still saying that Trump's wiretapping claims have been vindicated, even though that's not even close to being true.
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But Dr. Tessler and his colleagues chose eight less-studied types of marine leeches that can feed on creatures like turtles, fish and even sharks.
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The team had thought that perhaps leeches feeding on turtles and sharks would be very different, Dr. Tessler said, but that was not the case.
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When that day comes, it won't be enough to throw around terms like "welfare queens" or "leeches," as if we don't understand dog-whistle politics.
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At a store run by the leech farm, Nadezhda K. Loba, 64, turned up with a plastic water jug and an order for 100 leeches.
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Then, the idea that we used to pump poison into people to fight off cancer will almost seem like the use of leeches or something.
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For this reason, leeches can be used in a medical setting to treat cardiovascular issues and cancer pain, as well as help people heal from surgery.
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Dr. Kvist said that although the smuggling incident did not prompt the exhibit, some of the leeches seized at the airport will be on display — live.
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Not only is Tan a longtime supporter of the AMNH, she makes frequent reference to these tiny leeches in her 2005 novel, Saving Fish from Drowning.
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With Hot Dog safe, the quartet is free to head to some sort of beloved, never-before-mentioned swimming hole that is actually full of leeches.
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"The events of Season 3 have hardened him a little bit; made him a little less naïve," Dempsie said (the season with Melisandre and the leeches).
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But then somehow she makes do with burning just a few leeches with his blood and naming the usurpers Robb Stark, Balon Greyjoy, and Joffrey Baratheon.
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"It's easy to pick on people who can't really stand up for themselves and point them out as leeches on the federal government," Ms. Orlansky said.
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Side effects include nausea, dizziness, numbness, dumbness, Dementias, deletions, leeches, letches, hexes, hoaxes, hocus-pocuses, And, if there is justice, spiritual, moral, federal, state, & local charges.
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As for what cops are worried about ... they think Mavis is now a magnet for leeches, crooks and scammers who want a piece of the pie.
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Leeches, the researchers reported in the journal Systematics and Biodiversity, are far from picky eaters: the parasites had fed on 26 different mammal species, plus three birds.
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While the leeches produced evidence of 12 species of mammals (including a small rodent, the Tanezumi rat, that the camera traps missed), the cameras documented 26 species.
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But soft tissue—like the stuff that makes up worms or jellyfish (or leeches)—isn't as dense, and thus doesn't show up very well in CT scans.
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Balon Greyjoy: Way back in Season 3, Melisandre threw three leeches into a fire: One for Joffrey Baratheon, one for Robb Stark, and one for Balon Greyjoy.
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About 6,000 leeches are used each year in the U.S., according to BioTherapeutics Education and Research Foundation, though not for treating heart-related issues as in Russia.
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In the books he goes out to check on the fridge and discovers that the inside is packed with flying leeches, which swarm out and devour him.
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To his left, the figure in hell is clearly doomed, with shackles around his wrists and neck and leeches and toads crawling on his torn, bloodied skin.
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I live in New York City, so naturally, there was some guy with a jar full of leeches right down the street from my apartment in Brooklyn.
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The point of having leeches nurse your flesh isn't just about losing some blood—it's about the leech drooling healing enzymes into your body, while it feeds.
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If you favored Jefferson, you chose Rush's method and allowed leeches to suck the blood out of your body to supposedly purge the poison from your blood.
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According to Brynjolfsson and McAfee, such talk misses the point: trying to save jobs by tearing up trade deals is like applying leeches to a head wound.
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Wait until the leeches, having clamped themselves onto your flesh and sucked your blood, are fully engorged, then pluck them and plop them back into the soup.
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Simply collecting a few more leeches, Ms. Weiskopf said, could potentially put the method on par with camera trapping — especially when time and money are taken into account.
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"It would drive those leeches who are front running the market out of business because ... the way they are trading now, they can't afford that tax," he said.
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At the Independence Day celebrations here, Mr. Mutsvangwa dismissed as "leeches" prominent members of the G40, who were sitting not too far from him under the same tent.
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Crombie's team did detailed research into the era's remedies for gout, and for those scenes, they dressed Anne's room with medical equipment, pastes, and jars of real leeches.
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For most of that time, whenever he spoke about machine learning, people looked at him as though he were talking about the Ptolemaic spheres or bloodletting by leeches.
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The bizarre yarn begins with an October incident at Toronto's Pearson International Airport, where a man at was found to be carrying thousands of live leeches in his bags.
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Photo: Mark Stehle (AP Photo)After spending much of the 20th century relegated to the dustbin of quack medicine, leeches are now enjoying a renaissance in the doctor's office.
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I've also reached out to LeechesUSA, the only company in the US allowed to sell FDA-approved leeches for medical use for their take, but haven't heard back yet.
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It told them there was good in being there, even among the horrendous heat and leeches and mosquitoes the size of Mack trucks, among the killing and being killed.
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He collected hundreds of leeches and analyzed their last blood meals, hoping to identify their animal victims — and thus to reveal the range of species living in the forest.
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After looking in the fridge to check on his latest kill, Patrick discovers a nest of flying leeches which proceed to swarm out and latch themselves onto his body.
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The water in most of the films is probably better for swimming, although Humphrey Bogart does have an encounter with leeches in "The African Queen," which opened the program.
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He's a little unsure just how much he wants a criminal life, though, and he's estranged from his father, a recovering alcoholic who catches leeches to sell for bait.
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But a bigger concern was much smaller: While on patrols, whenever we stopped to rest we would use lit cigarettes to shed our lower bodies of dozens of leeches.
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Melisandre took away Arya's last friend, Gendry (and Arya doesn't even know about the regrettable episode of the leeches), who's now ostensibly floating to the ends of the earth.
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While turf helps prevent erosion and filters greenhouse gases, it also leeches herbicides and pesticides into groundwater and provides few nutrients for coexisting wild creatures, including birds, butterflies and rabbits.
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At the end of the day, I left with a stomach full of veggies, a swag bag of useful stuff, and images of Miranda Kerr with a face covered leeches.
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You might think you know leeches: Go for a swim in the wrong shallow lake, and you'll emerge covered in sleek black bloodsuckers that have decided you're their next meal.
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It can involve long drives on spine-rattling, rocky tracks, clambering up hillsides, bushwhacking through jungle, and occasional encounters with elephants, bears and snakes, as well as leeches and ticks.
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In New York City, politically connected lawyers, judges and contractors can, as our reporting team found, feed on these unguarded estates like leeches on flesh at a nudist camp lake.
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They set out glass jars teeming with medical leeches, or Hirudo medicinalis; a colander with a fine, porous surface; a bolt of cheesecloth; and a jug of fresh cow's blood.
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The details of his life take up 20 pages or so, all so Beverly can say that she watched It spray him with massive leeches and kill him back in 1958.
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She uses that blood in a ritual, filling three leeches with his blood, which Stannis then uses in a ritual to condemn Joffrey Baratheon, Balon Greyjoy, and Robb Stark to death.
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" It goes on to say: "consequently, leeches have made a comeback as a new remedy for many chronic and life-threatening abnormalities, such as cardiovascular problems, cancer, metastasis, and infectious diseases.
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I'm just here to tell you — and the type of people interested in putting leeches and placentas on their faces — about a DIY skin remedy making the rounds on the Internet.
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Keep in mind, scientists in that era also thought leeches were a cure for many ailments too, so no, you don't have to skip lunch outside to avoid the falling pigeons.
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Major League Baseball, a collective of leeches, has released a statement in response to the growing controversy over legislation that would bar minor league baseball players from federal fair labor protection.
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The water in most of the films is probably better for swimming, although Humphrey Bogart does have an encounter with leeches in "The African Queen," which opens the program on Wednesday.
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At one point they said it was an ancient relative of modern earthworms and leeches, and at another it was believed to be a precursor to present-day predatory marine worms.
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Back when medicine was in its "let's just bleed the patient" phase, people called leech collectors would cull leeches from the ground with animal legs and then sell them to doctors.
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This practice was common in the 18th and 19th centuries in both Britain and America — bloodletting via leeches was thought to release the patient of bad humors that made them sick.
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Cures were humiliating and painful: He was left to lie in darkness for a week at a time, leeches attached to his ears to draw the blood down from his head.
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Melisandre gets Gendry's blood up (she starts to seduce him about 30 minutes into Episode 8, and the leeches are clear of all private parts three and a half minutes later).
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Squeamish readers may blanch at the amount of blood-flecked sputum the tubercular Chopin coughs up on the page, and at the procession of doctors with their leeches and milk diets.
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Ms. Kalinicheva, a secretary in a Moscow office, said she had suffered from intolerable lower back pain before trying leeches, applied weekly at a walk-in medical center, the Hirudotherapy Clinic.
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At feeding time, the "leech raisers," as they are called, plunge their hands into the glass bottles of leeches, retrieve the little bloodsuckers and put them in the blood-filled colanders.
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"They're young guys in this horrendous heat, slogging through rice paddies with mosquitoes the size of Mack trucks, picking leeches off themselves, shooting and fighting and killing and being killed," he said.
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Medicinal leeches, which have minuscule jaws and which doctors may use to keep blood flowing in the treatment of injuries that might otherwise lead to amputation, have been examined like this before.
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"[Warehouse workers] striking and us boycotting in solidarity is meant to scare the incredibly wealthy leeches who while not actually producing the value of the company will reap all the reward," Morris said.
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The team concluded that the prehistoric sea worm Oesia belonged to an animal group called Hemichordates, which makes it more closely related to sea stars and sea cucumbers than to earthworms or leeches.
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More recently, however, doctors and researchers have found that leeches—and the cocktail of chemicals found inside their saliva that aid their dine-and-dash routine—really can have useful effects on the body.
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Medical technology has advanced tremendously in the past few decades, yet doctors cling to a tool that was invented at a time when medical practitioners still regularly used leeches as a form of treatment.
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He no longer practices the medical techniques he learned early on from older barbers, such as burning off warts, placing heated glass cups on the torso and using leeches for swelling or high blood pressure.
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Many were making a tidy income from useless but lucrative "cures" for smallpox, like leeches, purgatives or silver needles to release the mayonnaise-like pus from the thousands of pustules that studded the patient's skin.
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Installing the software — by using rock-climbing equipment to ratchet himself up a rope, nearly 200 feet into the treetops — went smoothly enough despite the stifling heat and the leeches that crawled into his boots.
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His fans accuse the two men of being money-seeking leeches who lived off Jackson's largesse and only now are bringing forth these tales of abuse in order to siphon more money from Jackson's estate.
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MINSK (Reuters) - Belarus's reputation as a hard place for private entrepreneurs to succeed is starting to fade as the Soviet-style economy frays and the president who once denounced them as "leeches" tries to woo them.
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In fact, leeches are creeping back into Western medicine — as many as 6,000 are used annually in the United States, the BioTherapeutics, Education and Research Foundation estimates — but not for the same purposes as in Russia.
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Although insects are very big in the blood-feeding world, leeches occupy a special place in the human imagination — somewhere between vampire bats and that tiny fish that was once reputed to swim up the human urethra.
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"While the Europeans are acting towards Greece like medieval leeches, the Chinese keep bringing money," said Costas Douzinas, the head of the Greek Parliament's foreign affairs and defense committee and a member of the governing Syriza party.
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Their saliva contains powerful blood-thinners and anti-inflammatory chemicals that have been used to develop treatments for cardiovascular disease, while the leeches themselves can clean up some gaping wounds better than other modern methods we have available.
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Nguyen Quang Hoa Anh, a project manager for the World Wildlife Fund in Vietnam who was not involved in the research, has been using leeches for several years to survey wildlife in remote jungles near the Lao border.
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So is the history of blood science, from the existence of different types to the medicinal use of leeches (now employed in the niche business of alleviating blood congestion in plastic surgery), to lifesaving treatments for major injuries.
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No. 2 Seeds: The Greats Melisandre & Gendry in "Second Sons" Season 3, episode 8 Melisandre's (Carice van Houten) light BDSM romp with Gendry (Joe Dempsie) is all fun and very sexy games until she drops leeches on his penis.
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One state representative (not a doctor) said this was to stop abortion providers from "experimenting with women's lives," which seems sort of like insisting doctors stick to using good old-fashioned leeches instead of all these new-fangled medicines.
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Caelynn was treated to a shopping spree worthy of Crazy Rich Asians, Tayshia bungee jumped off of a 1,000-foot tower, and the rest of the women went to an outdoor market and voluntarily placed leeches on their bodies.
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Medical experts in Malaysia have said that it's of "paramount importance" to use leech therapy more frequently in plastic and reconstructive surgery, given how easy leeches are to apply and the reduced side-effects, compared to more invasive methods.
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They take power from below and wield rampaging riffs as praxis; on their latest album, Hɪðəˈtu, the band explicitly crafts what they call "black metal for the oppressed" by railing against Nazis and capitalist leeches in the name of resistance.
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AUDENGE, France (Reuters) - French hospitals have long been using leeches to prevent blood clots after surgery and their use looks set to expand as scientists say the animal could in future be used to treat problems including rheumatism and osteoarthritis.
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For most of us, the only relationship we've ever had with leeches was cringing during that scene in Stand By Me when the kids go swimming in a pond only to find their junk being sucked by the bloodthirsty devils.
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The AMNH team tested various chemical preservatives on North American freshwater leeches, and found that the best option was to first fix the leech in a mixture of alcohol, formalin, and acetic acid, and then refix it using osmium tetroxide.
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Gendry was shipped away from King's Landing for his own safety — along with Arya in disguise — and set upon a journey that would include the Brotherhood without Banners, the Faceless Men, and a charged sexual encounter involving leeches and black magic.
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According to The New York Times, using leeches for beauty purposes has been a craze in Hollywood for the past few years — and an ancient practice across cultures — with actresses getting leech facials, leech face-lifts, and even leech detoxes.
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Honey, leeches and other ways of treating infection before antibiotics Many different types of honey also produce microbe-killing levels of hydrogen peroxide when glucose oxidase (an enzyme incorporated into honey by bees) reacts with glucose and oxygen molecules in water.
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She visits a leech farm in Wales, because these parasites (she describes them as useful and polite and almost jaunty) are still needed by doctors for skin grafts, among other things; the leeches help remove blood that pools under the graft.
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Though Sherman doesn't know of any research that's formally looked at leeches as a way to speed up exercise recovery (nor could I find anything from a cursory expedition through PubMed), he says it isn't entirely out of the realm of possibility.
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Contrast that with Ronald Regan's oft-invoked trope of the "welfare queen," the black woman who supposedly leeches off of the government for her own needs and "black poverty had come to be seen as associated with laziness, criminality and violence" said McIlwain.
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In "Rituale" ("Ritual"), from 20033, a gash of pigment the color of dried blood is surrounded by black plastic cannulas, which echo the leeches that form a necklace around her grandmother's neck in her earliest extant watercolor, "Nonna Carolina" ("Granny Carolina," 22003).
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Walker and his ideological compatriots have used divide-and-conquer tactics that paint public workers as overpaid leeches on the taxpayer, never mind that they are almost certainly underpaid relative to the private sector, and many of them do not receive Social Security.
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In a letter marked "Private & Confidential" to the hotel's other owners, the businessman, Orestes Fintiklis, likened the Trumps to leeches who had attached to the property, "draining our last drops of blood," according to a copy reviewed by The New York Times.
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In Medina, the film's use of demagogy wasn't a drawback, but a punch line: One scene dismissing minority voters as leeches feeding off Democrats' "modern plantation" was met with approving giggles, while a montage of liberals crying on election night elicited riotous laughter.
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Support for tying the dollar to gold's value makes a Fed candidate "manifestly unqualified, in the same way I wouldn't have a surgeon general who supported leeches and bloodletting," said Jason Furman, a Harvard professor and former chief economist to President Barack Obama.
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Throughout the film, Foster channels his rage about the shitty hand the universe has dealt him—recently laid off, wife left with the kid—into scapegoating non-white and non-English-speaking "others" who he perceives as tormenters and leeches on his once polite society.
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On Saturday evening at 22:258 PM, the Moon in sensual Taurus faces off with Jupiter, enabling your natural generosity—but be careful not to overdo it (don't get too drunk) and watch out for opportunistic leeches who will take advantage of your kindness.
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Queensland and the federal government have said that halting nitrogen runoff from farms and fine sediment that leeches into the ocean would improve the water quality and allow the reef to better withstand the impacts of climate change and shocks from severe weather like cyclones.
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The Food and Drug Administration in the United States cleared the sale of leeches as medical devices in 2004 — along with maggots — while European pharmaceutical companies have focused on isolating therapeutic, blood-thinning chemicals in the venom and delivering it in a less creepy manner.
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And then there's the added factor of class, which leeches through every interaction between the blue-collar Rose-Lynn and bourgeois Susannah, especially when she asks her boss for a $5,000 investment in her music career, so she can get to Nashville and get her start.
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Dr. Kvist, who also helped identify Macrobdella mimicus, is co-designer of a new museum exhibit called "Bloodsuckers: Legends to Leeches," a celebration of the sucking, sipping, drinking and lapping of the blood of mammals, birds, reptiles, fish and amphibians in real life as well as the imagination.
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It's the leech's many uses across a broad spectrum of afflictions that is bringing them back into the "mainstream of modern medical practice," according to Maria Bonazinga, President of Leeches USA, whose website provides doctors and other leech enthusiasts information, case studies and year-round emergency leech delivery.
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The former N.B.A. superstar Shaquille O'Neal and Mr. Grylls are plucked by helicopter from a moving freight train and then plopped into the dense forest of the Adirondacks to battle bloodsucking leeches and 200-foot rock faces as they try to make their way out of the wilderness.
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This idea plays a critical architectural role in holding together the political coalition of contemporary conservatism — selling the idea that tax cutting is compatible with financial support for the elderly because there will be plenty of money for everyone once we get rid of the foreign-born leeches.
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This idea plays a critical architectural role in holding together the political coalition of contemporary conservatism — selling the idea that cutting taxes is compatible with financial support for the elderly because there will be plenty of money for everyone once we get rid of the foreign-born leeches.
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Anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, and wholly uncompromising, the band crafts what they call "black metal for the oppressed," railing against Nazis and capitalist leeches in the name of resistance, blasting out riff after riff of Hellenic fury, and relying on an elegantly sense of melody to tie it all together.
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Like researchers in richer countries, scientists in the Soviet Union were trying to transform live leech therapy into pharmaceutical products in the late 1980s, said Gennady I. Nikonov, the director of the leech farm, who got his start in a laboratory at Moscow State University trying to isolate medicinal compounds from leeches.
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In reality, Melisandre and Stannis planned to bleed Gendry dry by way of leeches so that they could use his blood, put a curse on anyone who posed as a threat to the throne they believed belonged to Stannis, and then discard of him like, well...a leech, by serving him a fiery death.
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The moral of "Acrimony" seems to be: Leave a bad man, especially one who cheated on you before marriage and leeches off your financial resources — unless he has poured his life into the dream of inventing a self-recharging battery, in which case the bonds of matrimony are sacrosanct and no sacrifice is too great.
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After the 2012 GOP nominee's advisers concluded he needed "a more combative footing against President Obama in order to appeal to white, working-class voters," Romney aired a stunningly dishonest ad charging falsely that Obama had removed work requirements from welfare, allowing shiftless leeches to sit back and enjoy government largesse paid for by hardworking Americans.
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Writing in the late 1700s, Voltaire viewed them as pseudo-scientists who claimed to believe in their ridiculous outdated remedies (such as using leeches to bleed sickness out of people), when the new medical science (and the constant, sad deaths of patients at the hands of their doctors) made it increasingly clear that those doctors were quacks—often well-meaning and trying their best, but quacks nevertheless.
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This includes not only the unaccountable tournament organizers and shady managers, but the cottage industry of lecherous betting sites and ELO boosters (where people pay more skilled players to improve their matchmaking rank on their account) that exist like leeches on Dota 2's professional scene—and it's worth acknowledging that SmAsH has been accused of taking part in ELO-boosting schemes as well.
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This is a series in which anyone who feels as if he or she is standing on the edge of a precipice usually is; in which a lake named Lachrymose contains deadly leeches that have already made a meal of Ike, a Baudelaire in-law fondly remembered by his widow for his ability to whistle while eating crackers; and in which quite a few characters loose their free will to a hypnotist named Dr. Orwell.
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In a letter, one of his sisters, Diana, reports on another, Susan, with a wretched brother bringing up the rear: She has been suffering much from the headache and six leeches a day for ten days together relieved her so little that we thought it right to change our measures—and being convinced on examination that much of the evil lay in her gum, I persuaded her to attack the disorder there.
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They come at you as a massive crowd, which, in my case, would consist of ants, mosquitoes, yellow jackets, houseflies, fruit flies, horseflies, spiders, centipedes, cockroaches, moles, mice, shrews, snakes, trout, catfish, sand sharks, walleyes, wasps, rabbits, ticks, lampreys, leeches, ladybugs, beetles, centrarchids, annelids, American shad, Atlantic salmon, honeybees, hornets, Arctic char, Pacific salmon, pike, pickerel, porcupines, caterpillars, butterflies, bluefish, moths, mullet, perch, suckers, fallfish, and bats, not to mention road-killed squirrels, raccoons, pheasants, and deer.
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We read God's Debris and The God Delusion, debunked the logical proof of God's existence put forth by Aquinas, read the Bible as literature, and occasionally laughed at the more outlandish elements of certain stories — Lot's wife turning to a pillar of salt for looking over her shoulder, Joseph's brothers' inability to recognize him when he became pharaoh of Egypt, Noah's Ark and the idea that two of every species alive today could fit into one boat without all eating each other, the blood in the river and the frogs and the leeches; but we learned some lessons anyway, in Sunday school and in discussions at the dinner table, what my parents called the "point" of their atheist version of Judaism.
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I'm not staying in that long and when I get out I'll continue to do the work that I do today, but if the conversation gets started like it has, if people start realizing and paying attention to e-waste, to planned obsolescence, to the right to repair movement that's taking over the country, if I can be a cog in the wheel of that progress in society, if I can help the world evolve past being primitive neanderthals that throw everything in a hole in the ground that leeches harmful chemicals into our water table and the food we eat and the water we drink and the air we breathe, if I can help the world in that way, then hell yeah, I'm willing to go to prison for that.
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