• ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I’m morbidly curious how antivaxers would respond if some YouTuber started telling them that leeching could “suck out the Rona”.

    …Who am I kidding, we already know.

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      4 months ago

      I’m only surprised such a suggestion didn’t get to and get disseminated by Trump.

      I guess it’s hard to find leeches these days. I wouldn’t know where to get one other than a pond in an area known to have leeches.

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        4 months ago

        Ironically, medical leeches and maggots are still used in modern medicine under extremely rare conditions. They are specific species bred in labs for that purpose however.