Every now and then, one hears news about strange, almost twisted chance-encounter relationships between mankind and the rest of the animal kingdom.
Such is the case for a 51-year-old Chinese man who harbored a live thumb-sized leech on his right nostril for two weeks.
The viral video of the leech extraction made by Dr. Liu Xiongguang of Beihai People’s Hospital in South China was uploaded in the Chinese microblogging site Weibo by Changsha Legal and Legislation Channel, and reported by the Mirror last Wednesday, June 6.
Dr. Liu painstakingly used forceps to widely open the man’s nostril, and then pulled out the bloodsucker with tweezers.
