Srinagar, India. 21st Mar, 2017. Leech suck blood from a foot of a child after a 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. Every year traditional health workers in Kashmir use leeches to treat people for small, itchy, painful lumps that develop on the skin called chilblains acquired during winter on Nowruz, which marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the year in the Persian calendar. Credit: Zahid Hussain Bhat/Pacific Press/Alamy Live News

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