In today's news there is a story about a newly described species of leech that likes to chomp down mucous membranes of hosts and begin to snack. Apparently one or more specimens were collected inside noses of folks who swim in the upper reaches of the Amazon in Peru.
UGH! (see http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2010/04/membraneleeches.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/04/t-rex-leech/&usg=__hCerBg8Rn4MQ-MtUpCCZvLUDB9c=&h=498&w=400&sz=180&hl=en&start=2&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=5Md5rnvGDpvpJM:&tbnh=130&tbnw=104&prev=/images%3Fq%3DTyrannobdella%2Brex%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26tbs%3Disch:1 )
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