A 53-year-old Vietnamese man came down with a scratchy voice and a sore throat. He thought he was getting sick. Then he started spitting blood. He went to a doctor in Hanoi who discovered the man had a 2-inch-long leech attached to his throat near his trachea. How did it get there? The man told doctors that he had sustained an injury to his hand, so he went out and picked some medicinal plants, put them in his mouth, and chewed them into a paste that he applied to his wound. Doctors believe a tiny leech was in those leaves.
* Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Cool!
* Treating a wound by picking and chewing medicinal leaves. Man, they gotta get some Walmarts in Vietnam.
* How do you remove a tapeworm from somebody’s brain? Tempt it out by putting candy in his ears?
* There’s a good reason for eating nothing but ultra-processed foods, you know. Chips and soda, pretty safe.
* The diversity of life on earth. Always an adventure.