Srinagar, India. 21st Mar, 2018. Traditional health worker uses leeches to suck blood as part of a treatment at Hazratbal on the banks of the Dal Lake on the outskirts of Srinagar Summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir. Every year traditional health workers in Kashmir use leeches to treat people for itchy, painful lumps that develop on the skin called chilblains acquired during winter on Novroz, which marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the year in the Persian calendar. Credit: Abbas Idrees/Pacific Press/Alamy Live News

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