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  2. Hematophagy - Wikipedia

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    The phlebotomic action opens a channel for contamination of the host species with bacteria, viruses and blood-borne parasites contained in the hematophagous organism. Thus, many animal and human infectious diseases are transmitted by hematophagous species, such as the bubonic plague, Chagas disease, dengue fever, eastern equine encephalitis, filariasis, leishmaniasis, Lyme disease, malaria ...

  3. The Bird With the Blood-Thirsty Beak - AOL

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    The vampire finches of the Galápagos weren’t always the blood-sucking creatures we see today. Just half a million years ago, these birds arrived on Wolf and Darwin islands and entered into a ...

  4. Blooding (hunting) - Wikipedia

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    Blooding is the practice of smearing an animal's blood on the face of the person who killed the animal while hunting.An article on blooding in the British royal family says "Spreading blood on a person’s face is an ancient ritual performed to celebrate a hunter’s first successful kill."

  5. Midge - Wikipedia

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    The Ceratopogonidae (biting midges) include serious blood-sucking pests, feeding both on humans and other mammals. Some of them spread the livestock diseases known as blue tongue and African horse sickness – other species though, are at least partly nectar feeders, and some even suck insect bodily fluids.

  6. Blood-sucking body lice may have spread plague more than ...

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    Scientists have long debated whether human body lice might have helped drive the rapid spread of the bacteria responsible for the deadly plague in the Middle Ages, known as the Black Death.

  7. Python caught in Everglades had blood-sucking tick filling ...

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    It takes a lot to give professional snake wranglers the creeps, but it happened when a group of hunters captured a python plagued by blood-sucking ticks in Florida’s Everglades.

  8. Reduviidae - Wikipedia

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    The family members are almost all predatory, except for a few blood-sucking species, some of which are important as disease vectors. About 7000 species have been described, in more than 20 recognized subfamilies, making it one of the largest families in the Hemiptera. [1] The name Reduviidae is derived from the type genus, Reduvius.

  9. "To avoid the spread of disease, including H5 bird flu, we strongly encourage residents and their pets to avoid raw dairy and undercooked meat products, limit contact with sick or dead animals ...