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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 ...
Leech bites are generally alarming rather than dangerous, though a small percentage of people have severe allergic or anaphylactic reactions and require urgent medical care. Symptoms of these reactions include red blotches or an itchy rash over the body, swelling around the lips or eyes, a feeling of faintness or dizziness, and difficulty in ...
It is of the genus Haematobia which is the European genus of bloodsucking flies. Haematobia irritans is a native of Europe but has been introduced to North America and is considered a potentially dangerous livestock pest.
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 77 bird species in the United States are threatened with extinction. [1] The IUCN has classified each of these species into one of three conservation statuses: vulnerable VU, endangered EN, and critically endangered CR (v. 2013.2, the data is current as of March 5, 2014 [1]).
A rare breed of blood-sucking leech is being bred at London Zoo in a bid to save the UK’s largest native leech species from extinction. The medicinal leech was once widespread in Britain, but ...
These larvae are important food sources for many freshwater animals, such as dragonfly nymphs, many fish, and some birds. Adult females of many species have mouthparts adapted to pierce the skin of a host and feed on blood of a wide range of vertebrate hosts, and some invertebrates, primarily other arthropods. Some species only produce eggs ...
Birds are susceptible to contracting the virus, and such deaths would be a clear signal the disease is spreading. The state public health department counted 88 dead birds as positive for the virus ...
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 ...