Sorry i RTed it, apparently the leech story is B$
Which story was it
Well I'm GLAD. Hurrah and back to swimming with ordinary leeches.
I looked it up and concluded that it was a horror story, not meant to be taken literally, but drawing on real life
I'm glad it wasn't true. These things are already nightmare fuel as it is without inventing new bullshit for them to have done!
There are still leeches that can go up people's nose tho bsky.app/profile/the-... They just don't act like how it was in that story. And they certainly don't lay eggs in your nose.
Here's an a real story about a nose leech dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2019/10/dino... which happens to be in the same family and similar habits to the Tyrannobdella rex which starred in that thread. Compare and contrast with what happens in that T. rex leech story going around.
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